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...Below the surface the facts are different. Nothing is lacking at Cambridge to make the University a fitting school of the best kind for newspaper work. Where other colleges require a great expenditure of time on studies not of direct appreciable value to an editor, Harvard prescribes no study even in the freshman year which is not calculated to make the student of service on a newspaper staff. Any Harvard student who thinks he has a taste for newspaper work is given plenty of chances to test his abilities and to find out whether he really has the 'nose...
...disputes the fact that, while Harvard offers no courses in the study of journalism itself, yet there are many courses given here which are very necessary to him who intends to devote his attention to newspaper work, and which in themselves give a better journalistic education than even special courses in journalism would do. Moreover, of equal value with the ably-conducted courses in political science, philosophy and the like, are the opportunities offered by the various student papers here - opportunities which are equalled only by those at Yale. Therefore it is not strange that many of our graduates...
...been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than any public treasury, to which we can turn with confidence. The willingness and even eagerness of our men of wealth to take the place which ancient governments fill in Europe as patrons of learning is one of our national glories, to which each year of history adds new lustre. We must all feel a pride in the words with which the distinguished English scholar...
...obvious from the beginning that our School could never aspire to the rank and importance which the French and German schools at Athens have long maintained, and could never undertake continuous and serious work, while its head was continually changing, and there was only temporary provision for even this changing directorship. The ground of the present appeal is the necessity for immediate action in order that we may secure a most efficient permanent director. Dr. Charles Waldstein, the accomplished archaeologist, who now holds two important positions at the University of Cambridge, England, as lecturer on archaeology and director...
Hight, '89, has been obliged to leave college on account of illness arising from overtraining on his class tug-of-war team and crew. Of course he will be now unable to pull on the tug-of-war, and there is even some fear that he will not be able to row on the crew...