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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...establishment of the Natural History School at Penikese is due to Agassiz; it was to be an auxiliary of the Museum, and was founded for the purpose of enabling students to come into closer contact with Nature, and thus to make more critical observations of her works. Though hardly a year old, it can already be pronounced a success. When the students at this school for the first time came together in the lecture-room, there was a spirit of fault-finding prevalent among them, in consequence of the not over-sumptuous accommodations, but when they had listened...
These Durers are followed by a few samples of the Little Masters. They were men of industry and some artistic ability, who imitated Durer as far as they could, always preferring to make miniature engravings rather than larger ones. It is very amusing to pass from Durer's Melencolia to J. Behau's attempt at the same. After standing in awe before the sad glance of Durer's figure with its resting wings, that still have power to bear it through endless wandering, with the neglected implements of human science cast on the earth, and with its never...
...must accommodate ourselves to the present surrounding conditions, however unfortunate they may be, and make college papers as full of matters of general interest as possible. But the news of one college is well known to its undergraduates before it can get into the college papers; and thus "Locals" and "Brevities" are generally only a convenient method of preserving in print for future reference facts of interest. Of what is going on at other colleges most of us are in the dark. Our exchanges furnish us with an occasional ray of light on the subject, but these are not seen...
...rink, but on a lake or river, where one can look off to the hills and woods and feel the keen air. Now that club skates, star and acme skates, have come into fashion, we need not pinch our feet with the barbarous straps or numb our fingers in making our preparations to get on the ice. One difficulty in skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic...
...vacation, returns scarcely better prepared for the ensuing year. For, in the way of amusement, he merely exchanges the Museum for the Bouffes Parisiennes, Brighton Road for the Bois de Boulogne, and Papanti's for the Mabille. To be sure, it is a great thing to see the world, make the grand tour, etc.; but visiting picture-galleries and palaces, and dreaming under the combined influence of a cigar and the Lake of Como, are very poor preparations for mathematics and logic, relieved only by the milder diversions of a Cambridge winter; and the average student is apt to return...