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...current number of The Continent contains an article on Harvard undergraduate life which cannot fail to be of interest to all students in Cambridge. The writer of the article, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, the compiler of the lives of Longfellow and Whittier, takes a very friendly view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance...
...editorial in the current Spirit of the Times on the "Eternal Yale-Harvard Quarrel," however well intended, is certainly ill-advised. The very objection it urges against the journals of the two universities must be urged with double force against the Spirit itself. If its editor fears that the college journals will injure the colleges they represent by giving too much prominence to this so-called "eternal quarrel," how much more injury will these institutions receive from an editorial making such grave charges as does the one in the Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part...
...army appropriation bill has been completed and will probably be presented to Congress today. It appropriates in round numbers $23,000.000 - $1,600,000 less than for the current year...
...special meeting of the overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, at the office of the treasurer in Water street, Boston, Hon. E. R. Hoar in the chair, Henry Grosvenor Carey was appointed instructor in vocal music for the current year; Frederick Bradford Knapp, instructor in surveying and drawing; Dwight Moses Clapp, clinical instructor in operative dentistry. It was voted that a school of veterinary medicine be established in the university, and that its faculty be constituted in accordance with the statute relating to faculties. The following were added to the committee on languages: Henry W. Haynes, Francis Peabody...
...current number of Good Literature contains an interesting article on "Student Life at Edinburgh University...