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...makes him feel as though, in some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...
...club to the Natural History Society, the whole club to be incorporated as a sub-section of the N. H. Society. This sub-section will then have a curator, chairman, and secretary of its own. Mr. Garrison was elected chairman by a unanimous vote, but it was resolved to defer the election of other officers till the next meeting. It was decided that members should be free to keep what specimens they desired for their private collections, but the society will also form a collection which will be added to that of the N. H. Society. The meeting was successful...
...this article as may be seen, no mention is made of the University or Freshmen crews. It was found best to defer a full description of them until certain changes have been made in the composition of the Freshman crew. It is gratifying to everybody interested in Harvard boating or in the physical development of students, to notice the large number of students in strict training. This thorough system of training for class races was introduced several years ago by our late coach, Col. Bancroft. Now that the onerous duty of coaching the crews falls upon the respective captains...
...used to say that tennis was only fit for the delicate Harvard man. Can it be that Yale grows mild ? We'll defer the answer until we see the eleven play.-[Record...
...Royce was unable to prepare an abstract of his lecture in time for publication in today's issue, and we are therefore obliged to defer our report until tomorrow's issue...