Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Reading-Room are in a promising state, and an effort is now being forwarded by the open handed few to pay off the debt for gas, that former years bequeathed to us. Those who are most interested in the present stability and future success of the Reading-Room will find the Directors more than willing to receive their subscriptions towards paying off this debt...
Since the above was written, we have received a circular containing information with regard to this very subject, in which we were most happy to find the following sentence: "In special cases the Academic Council is authorized to remit the requisition of residence at the University to Bachelors of Arts or Science of Harvard University." We learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings...
...much-lauded Boat-Club system has come to an end. Has it been a success ? We fear that many of those who have not been on the crews would answer, "No." On reading articles which appeared in the College papers when the system was first proposed, we find the benefits which were to follow its adoption described in the most glowing colors. It was to put every species and variety of nautical craft at the service of every student for the sum of fifteen dollars, and a hope was held out that this annual payment might subsequently be diminished. Thus...
...Yale Courant has blossomed out in a most gorgeous, patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
...intended for Juniors, Seniors, and such Sophomores as have already elected some Latin and find themselves unable to take a three-hour elective. It is of a literary and philosophical character. Cicero de Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius...