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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give way to despair simply because he finds himself, on his yearly return to Cambridge, catalogued in a class one year behind that in which his name was enrolled the year previous. Let him the rather look upon the case of the aged undergraduate in a Vermont college, who entered with '32 and is to graduate with '85, and from the example thus set before him draw hope. It is true that some of us, who live at the rate of $1.500 a year, might object to expending such a large sum as $79.500 to attain...
...Oxford is interesting to me as one of the two centres of English culture, and as I wander in these gardens and look at these time-warn and ivy-covered walls and towers, I seem to be nearer, by a little, at least, to the men who have gone out from these classic shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke...
...relation. Many of our professors recognize this need and have endeavored to become better acquainted with the students by setting apart one or more evenings a week for formal receptions. The effect of this upon both must be most excellent. If an instructor sees that there are those who look up to him for counsel and advice as well as knowledge, he must feel that it devolves upon him to conduct himself in such a manner as not to influence them for the wrong, in the least...
...Shakspere Club continues the work so successfully begun at its recent public meeting, we may look for a decided improvement in the speaking at the competition for the Boylston prizes in May. Actual practice, and a good deal of it, is the great secret of success in all kinds of public speaking. The Shakspere Club furnishes such opportunities to its members, and thereby fills a long felt want in the study of elocution at Harvard...
...college another chance to hear these two much appreciated clubs. Moreover, any plan which will lighten the present burden of subscriptions, cannot but be hailed with delight by the students in Cambridge. The plan is certainly a good one, no matter in what way you choose to look...