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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman year, and as much mathematics as is required in our lowest divisions. We are pleased to learn that Rhetoricals are continued throughout the four years, and though our ideas about them are a trifle vague, we fancy they are very instructive. A weekly exercise in the English Bible is held, which all students are required to attend...
...study. The aim of the course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which the instructor in this course has given out in the past, those who take English 5 will have no reason to complain, as the New York Evening Post recently complained in regard to the Townsend essay subjects at Yale, that the students are not encouraged to write on live topics...
...else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been charged that Harvard men are not fit to take places in every-day life; that they are apes of Oxford, or the more unlovely features of English scholarship in general, and Oxford in particular; that they are malproportionately intemperate; that they are emphatically a 'foolish and perverse generation'; and that their courses of study are crowded full of faults...