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SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme II. will be due from both divisions Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 2 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. An account of the Monsoons in India. 2. American English. 3. Sketch of Richard Cobden. 4. The Political Career of General Butler. 5. What relation should exist between Amateur and Professional Athletics? 6. Dinners and Dining...
Theme II. will be due from both divisions Tuesday, November 21, at 2 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects : 1. An Account of the Monsoons in India. 2. American English. 3. Sketch of John Cobden. 4. The Political Career of General Butler. 5. What relation should exist between Amateur and Professional Athletics? 6. Dinners and Dining...
...Critic, in speaking in a recent issue of freedom of thought, says: "At the present time, the younger professors in all our great colleges are, with few exceptions, evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would...
...common to most college books. An outsider is led to believe that Harvard is merely a loafing place for a number of "fast" young men possessed of plenty of money and time and with nothing to do but squander both. It is undoubtedly true that such a set does exist at Harvard, as well as at other large colleges, however much we may attempt to deny the fact, and of the life of this class of students Guerndale gives a very fair and piquant account. The various scenes in Randolph and Guerndale's rooms are familiar to us all. Little...
...mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another "set" here, and a very large one it is. Unfortunately no author has ever taken it upon himself to make that set the personages of his book, but it does exist. Alongside of the "fast" set there is the hardworking set - that set of men that come to college to study and to learn. It is true that their lives afford less material for a romance than do the adventures of wealthy men's sons and the prowess of boating...