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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHILE in town a few days ago the writer heard much dissatisfaction expressed by a graduate who is prominent in boating matters, on the withdrawal of the late coach of the University Crew. He stated very positively that no better coach could be had in this country, and that the College would suffer very much by losing...
...would give us the opportunity for review which we so much need. The men who had studied would not need then to cram, as they do now, in a manner as unsatisfactory to them as it can be to the Faculty. The only objection, as far as we have heard, to having the list of examinations published thus early, is that it would seem like an encouragement to cramming. It seems to us that the early publication of the list would have an exactly opposite effect, - that it would do much to prevent cramming. If students knew the order...
PROFESSOR PAINE'S Symphony was given for the first time on Wednesday evening, by the Thomas orchestra; and was heard, seemingly with great pleasure, by a large and appreciative audience. That the Symphony should bear the test of being played in the same concert with the second of Beethoven, is sufficient evidence of its intrinsic merit; the first and third movements being particularly beautiful. The adagio was received with unmistakable enthusiasm; and at the end the audience insisted on calling Mr. Paine before the house. Although written in strict conformity with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner...
...heard of the "City of Peking," that triumph of the shipbuilding art, that was to show the essential superiority of the American genius to that of every nation on earth? To be sure, it cost very much more than it would have done had it been built on the Clyde, or in Patagonia for that matter, but then it was strictly national. Every false bolthead was stuck (sic) on by an American citizen. An American citizen built it, and an American company paid - or, to speak more accurately, did not pay - for it. An American company mismanaged...
...City of Peking," as I recently heard, has been condemned as unfit for sea in a little more than a year from the time of her launching, and is being rebuilt. If such is the condition of American companies, who can wonder that sensible men and women prefer to trust their lives with the English lines, who, at least, "assume a virtue if they have...