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...Harvard's institutions the observatory is perhaps least appreciated by undergraduates. It is through the praise of the outside world that we are reminded of the excellent work done in that sequestered tower. Following are some interesting items which appeared in a recent number of the "Nation...
...about to confer a great blessing on the British Empire by his inconsistency! Mr. Paine then discussed the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes of private pension bills. He declared that these bills are a most striking example of injudicious charity. It is a most extravagant waste of the nation's money, which should be reserved for more appropriate purposes...
There is an interesting letter entitled "Jefferson Davis and Repudiation," by Mr. A. T. Perkins, '87, in the last number of the "Nation...
...interesting review of the "Rise and Early Constitutions of Universities" has appeared in the last number of the Nation. According to the view of the author, until the fourteenth century there were no conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...