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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eager interest in politics, for it is a well known fact that the German universities have a strong tendency towards republicanism which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects at least we have a decided advantage over our less fortunate fellow-students across the water, in the attitude of our students towards politics and in the settled and enlightened form of our government...
...uproarious entertainment in one of the largest dormitories while all the upper-classmen are busy in the depths of a semiannual grind. To have seventy lively young men running up and down stairs, or singing in a single room is a little apt to distract the minds of those less enjoyably engaged. At any other time of the year it could easily be put up with as an evidence of superfluous an animal spirits; but in examination time it is rather trying...
...chemists and physicists, as well as the representatives of the other departments, agree that the students from the Gymnasia on the average accomplish more. It is the general experience that the foretastes of these sciences obtained in the Realschule frequently dulls rather than stimulates eagerness for knowledge. Still less are the modern languages able to take the place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture. The main point is that the instruction given...
...HOLMES HOUSE.Concering its destruction, a writer in the Cambridge Tribune says: It is nothing less than abominable to even meditate the destruction of the old Holmes house. It is dear to the older residents of our ancient town for many reasons; and now because it somewhat obscures the glories of the new and expensive legal nursery, it is doomed to join the shadowy procession of abolished landmarks-the old Hancock mansion in Boston, our beloved chestnut tree of fragrant memory, and many another precious relic of departed days...
...recent conference on athletics we are glad to be able to say, is likely to result in furnishing many undergraduates whose minds were previously more or less in the dark in regard to the present attitude of the college authorities on the subject, with a more or less definite idea of the views held by some of the more influential members of the faculty, and presumably therefore by the faculty in general. We also hope that the knowledge by the faculty of the views of a large proportion of the students on the matter of professionalism as expressed...