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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner" in which the Freshman nine was treated. Any man who was present at the Freshman match, and heard the hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly necessary to clap a player who gets his first-base on an error; but it is perfectly evident to the unprejudiced mind that the applause is meant to show the gratification...
...hour is over, he must be an unwilling listener to instruction that, in most cases at least, can be of little use to him. Besides this, one would think that a whole hour was quite short enough time for an instructor, however full of his subject, to do justice either to himself or his class...
...Oberlin Review is principally taken up with two four-column articles on "Conscience in History" and "Coleridge and Modern Thought." We confess that we were unable to finish either of them. A prize essay, however, is promised for next time, and we look forward to this with great interest...
...Library that there are so many works on subjects connected with Oriental nations, and so many translations of Oriental books, among the latest additions. But readers ought not to consider this investment of college funds as unwise, simply because there are no electives in Arabic or Persian open to either graduates or undergraduates. A university library ought to have books that a scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general...
...such reduction seems to be evident to every one; for the fact, which is doubtful, that the marks were too high, is no excuse for lowering these marks eight months after they were given. One of the chief merits of anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either to accept the result, or to take the course throughout the year; in this case, the marks are to be so lowered that many students would not have accepted them, and this is done when it is too late to take the course. Men, whose positions on the rank list...