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...various branches, have been greatly increased. The lower rooms of the building have been fitted up with elaborate apparatus for testing the strength of building material, and the students take a very hearty interest in their work. Every effort to raise the standard of the Scientific School nearer to the level of such institutions as the Institute of Technology, the School of Mines, or the Stevens Institute, is to be praised and encouraged. Our university attracts students from all over the country to its Law and Medical Schools, and we may expect that its Scientific School will some day possess...
...spring comes on, the time for the annual assignment of college rooms draws nearer, and those who so far have not been fortunate enough to get rooms in the yard begin to wonder whether they will be successful this year, or be thrown again upon the tender mercies of the Cambridge house holder. To these and possibly to others it may be interesting to hear how the distribution of rooms was effected before the introduction of the present lottery system...
There is an old custom at the University of Pennsylvania, called the Cremation, that it is interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...editorial way the western papers are not much different from those nearer home. Complaints, wise suggestions in matters of college government and undergraduate conduct, sarcasm, good and bad taste, mighty phillipics, extravagant "swipes," are as prevalent there as here. There seems to be, however, a tendency towards meddling with politics, national or local. The little journal swells out enormously, and disagrees most decidedly with a recent appointment at Washington, or thinks that the city had better "begin work on the grading" of such and such a street as soon as possible. The current number contains its Thanksgiving editorial...