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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hale, formerly instructor at Harvard and now at Cornell, writes a long and very interesting letter to the current Nation on "The Working of the Elective System at Harvard." Speaking from the standpoint of a former instructor in the college, Mr. Hale states and describes the theory and workings of this system with admirable candor and lucidity, presenting, we think, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy in this respect. The main points in his argument are these : "Harvard College is really more than a college; it is a college plus a body of preparatory schools. Harvard has the good...
...have never been very enthusiastic on the subject of boating, but more interest is taken in it now than for several seasons past. This is shown both by the number of candidates training for the crew, and by the amount of the subscriptions pledged in their support." Its letter from Pennsylvania University, dated last Thursday, says: "The boating outlook here is decidedly flattering, and there are between thirty and forty men in regular training. The general feeling seems to be favorable to the acceptance of all challenges, so confident does everybody appear in the merit of this season's crews...
...first day's session of the American Land League took place in Washington yesterday. Gen. P. A. Collins was elected president. Thirty-two States were represented by delegates. Resolutions were passed demanding the recall of Minister Lowell ; and a-letter condemnatory of Lowell's course was read from Wendell Phillips. Representative W. E. Robinson of New York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying...
...Peabody is at present in Italy. An interesting letter from his pen, written at Genoa, appears in this week's Cambridge Tribune...
...instant the possibility of such an occurrence as a case of intoxication being seen at the hall. The character of Harvard men is too well known to even admit of such a thought. It would be useless for me to reiterate the arguments advanced in my former letter; they are well known to every one who has examined the subject. I think, too, that you decide rather hastily when you say, as if conclusively, that the corporation would veto any step in the direction proposed. That body, I feel sure, are quick to recognize what is best for the students...