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INSTRUCTOR in Optics: "Yes, gentlemen, you may experience this curious phenomenon of seeing double by gazing fixedly at any object for a short time. I myself have frequently observed double lampposts." Class woods up. (Fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...short, those people who went to the sports in the hope of seeing Mr. Lee and Mr. Wendell run against each other, were disappointed, for, in point of fact, these gentlemen did not run against each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...unsuccessful candidates as well. A man who undergoes the labor of preparing for these examinations, and yet fails, is naturally sensitive about having his failure made known, and I can say for myself that I should have had much more hesitation about going in had I known that that fact was to be spread abroad. Hardly any one knew who were the unsuccessful candidates last year, for the publication of a list of all applicants is an innovation of the Advocate. Let us hope that, in future, that paper may not be driven to disregard the feelings of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...NOTICED in the last number of the Crimson a communication advocating the admission of the Freshmen to the exercises round the Tree. It is very evident that the writer had only in view the fact of pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes and of the people assembled. In the first place, the enclosure is already overcrowded, and in the second place, the very evident consequence of such a step would be a rush between the two lower classes, which neither adds to the comfort of the Seniors nor to the enjoyment of the ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT THE TREE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...does. Human nature is much the same in Harvard College as it is in the world at large, and the only reason why the Harvard Gosling does not drink to excess is because Swellington does not. It is due, not to any virtue of Gosling's, but to the fact that our popular men exert a good influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS GOSLING A PHENOMENON? | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

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