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...brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been...
...following extract from President Eliot's article on the elective system is of immediate and significant interest to every Harvard man. The public will doubtless receive it as an official outlining of the future policy of this university; indeed it is substantially a statement of her present policy; and if Harvard were in need of any justification of her present system, in the discussion on this subject now going on in the public press, this might serve for that purpose. President Eliot says...
...sentence in the extract from the New York Tribune about the Yale crew, published in yesterday's HERALD, struck us as being rather significant, if it faithfully represents the undergraduate feeling at Yale in regard to the next Harvard-Yale race. The sentence we refer to is this : "Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew works, one would think there were great odds...
...York Sunday Times has an interesting letter from its Paris correspondent, on the manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus...
...safely be backed against his commercial cousin. Does not the college curriculum provide admirable training in the management of tailors' bills and the adjustment of expense accounts for the paternal inspection?" The slight flippancy of that last sentence may be disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible...