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...last Advocate contained a plea for an elective in cosmic philosophy. This plea was based upon the importance of this philosophy, evidenced in the fact that so many eminent scholars and philosophers support it, and in its evident comprehensibility...
...Trinity Tablet approves of spelling-matches, and laments the fact that the students of Hartford are not enthusiastic enough to engage in a contest with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute...
...accustomed to hear them here. The Club were evidently nervous during the first part of the evening, and consequently did not sing "Comrades in Arms," which opened the concert, as effectively as usual. "The Three Glasses" failed to make a sensation, as was expected, owing to the fact that it was sung loud all through. The "Ave Maria" was finely given, and was encored, as were the majority of the pieces. The "Polka" made the most decided "hit" of the evening, and was applauded as rapturously after, as before the encore. A Waltz, by Dudley Buck, which had never before...
...been a matter of surprise to me during my association with the University to find not only an indifference to military art in general, but a positive dislike to drill and the use of arms on the part of many students. This is owing, doubtless, to the fact that some who have been connected with schools in which drill was compulsory have been bored by it to the utmost limit of endurance, and on the part of others, that its uses and advantages have never been properly set before them. In the event of the following suggestions being adopted...
...have often heard it stated that there is more general musical culture in this country than in England; and this assertion seems borne out by the fact that the greatest names which appear in the programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges...