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...following extract from a letter written by Prof. Abraham S. Isaacs of the University of New York to the New York Evening Post, may be found of interest to the collage...
...following is a short extract taken from yesterday's Globe with reference to athletics at Yale...
...poem entitled "From Platen." In the last Monthly Mr. Berenson gave us a specimen of poetry which was hardly creditable to his literary ability. This time he offers us a short piece which does credit neither to his power of versification, nor to his judgment in selecting such an extract for translation. The lines are disjointed and unmelodious, while the idea contained in them is so trivial and insignificant that only the most masterly treatment could have made it justifiable. Mr. Sempers and Mr. Wister contribute very readable articles. Of the two, Mr. Sempers' will appeal to the more purely...
...interested in subjects connected with political science. The labor of searching for many hours, through the innumerable pages that make up the Statutes at Large, for any particular law is, by means of Prof. Laughlin's work, very much reduced. The remarks that follow each extract are well to the point, and show, in general, the relation of the law in question to those that have preceded it. We congratulate all political economy students on the material aid that has been rendered them by this work of Prof. Laughlin...
...principles underlying the elective system, - that equal excellence in every study cannot be attained by the same individual, but that some minds are so constituted that they can not pursue certain branches with success. Now this principle is recognized by the faculty elsewhere, as is evidenced by the following extract from the 1886-87 mathematical announcement; "It is unadvisable for students who have little taste or capacity for Mathematics to attempt the higher Mathematical electives." Is not that principle equally applicable to this case...