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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prayers, joined with those of the Advocate, have at length been answered. With great satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any one's gain? The intention of the College was doubtless good. We hope to see the yard paved with more such good intentions...
...Geneva was transferred to Italy. The Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College...
...President's Report and the Catalogue have again formed the subject for a criticism from some writer who has had an article of some length published in a recent number of the College Courant. The fact that it has attained undue publicity by finding a place in the columns of the Evening Post has induced us to give it some attention. A just criticism generally has a healthy tendency, and ought to go far toward correcting those faults which it censures. But an incomplete statement of facts, whether done willingly or ignorantly, a slight investigation where a thorough...
...wish the College would lay plank walks in the yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal-man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of University, we think of this. We do not find fault with the management of our beloved institution, but we mildly hint that plank walks, such as are each winter laid on Boston Common, would be a blessing to Faculty and students...