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...POSTAL has been sent to our Athletic Association by the Secretary of the New York Athletic Club, which serves both as announcement of their spring games and as invitation to us to join in them. The programme will be found below, and, as can be seen from it, their list of events is very nearly the same as that of our own spring and autumn meetings. It seems to us that it would be an excellent thing for the winners, at all events, of our spring contest (which we understand will take place about May 12), to enter themselves...
...with a view to becoming acquainted with the events and the leading men of to-day, an increased interest in public affairs would result; and one means to retrieve the vital mistake, as President Eliot calls it, Harvard has made in not sending more men into politics would be found...
...looking over the old curriculum about which several Transcript correspondents have had lately so much to say, it will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses...
...said that our rooms were worth more than those at Tufts. Why? Because the situation of Tufts College is notoriously one of the most dreary and exposed of any that could be found in the State. I said that our rooms were preferable to those at Yale, because there the old buildings were musty and shabby, and in the new ones steam-pipes were substituted for open hearths, which is a disadvantage that all Harvard students will appreciate. No may I ask what there is in these opinions that is "insulting" to Yale and Tufts, or "disgraceful" to myself? Again...
...effort of the evening was Mr. Russak's piano solo, "Regoletto," from Liszt. In answer to an encore he played Mill's "Murmuring Fountain." How far one's judgment may be biassed by outside motives is of course hard to say, but we thought at the time, and have found no cause to change our mind since, that Mr. Russak's playing was irreproachable both in mechanical execution and in fidelity of expression. The first piece of Mr. Babcock was an air, "Who treads the Path of Glory?" from Mozart's "Magic Flute." It was a piece which fully displayed...