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...feature of college life which becomes familiar with every student in the course of his four years of residence at Cambridge is the occasional visit of the man who wishes a little pecuniary aid to enable him to stem the current of his misfortunes. The placards displayed in the hallways of every dormitory are of no effect in repelling invasions of this kind, and it is not until a student gets well into his junior year that he acquires the art of speedily ridding his room of such unwelcome guests. The man who wishes you to add your name...
...following for 1885-6: Edward K. Dunham, Ph. B., instructor in histology; Eugene H. Babbitt in German; George Batchelor, A. M., lecturer on the ethics of the New Testament. Henry Dixon Jones, A. B., was appointed instructor in elocution. The visiting committees of the board were appointed for the current year...
Thomas Hunt, '87 has a long and interesting article in the current Church-man, on the "First European Porcelain Manufactory." It was written from Dresden...
...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...
...closing competition in the current match of the Shooting Club attracted just an even dozen of the members to Watertown yesterday. The weather conditions were of the best, and the scoring was high, one member reaching double figures in the singles. Appended is the sammary of the afternoon's work, together with the winners and their aggregates...