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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first piece, 'Shadow Fancies,' is passable; the next, 'Ballads,' a little better; Vestigia Nulla Retorsum,' awfully poor; 'Student Lamps,' just tolerable; Louis Adolphe Thiers,' good, yea, very good, in fact, the only good article we found; 'Hobbies,' insipid; 'My Friend Balbus,' worse; 'Summer,' worst, - the worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child...
...foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator...
...time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility in the use of Mathematics. Men cannot be expected to elect a subject which is sure to bring them so much hard, dry work and such unsatisfactory results...
...several of my acquaintance, and no doubt by many others. Since the Library has received so large an addition, I am sorry that I cannot call it also an improvement. There is no reason why a reading-room of sufficient size should not be provided. Whatever beauty the building ever possessed has been sacrificed to making it larger, but apparently it is not yet large enough. Though I do not wish to find any unnecessary fault, I cannot pass by in silence two discomforts with which all who use the Library must be acquainted: the ventilation is often very...
...Foot-ball Team because we have had to record defeat for them so seldom; and after the brilliant way in which the season opened, we had hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and squarely beaten by a team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned...