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...song may now exhibit. When we state that the compiling and publishing of "Songs of Harvard" was the work of a single month, we feel sure of the indulgence of the public towards the few mistakes of this sort which the book may contain - mistakes which are well-nigh unavoidable, even where the work of compilation is performed under the most favorable circumstances of time and place...
...would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking. Perhaps this was in some measure due to the place where the play...
...President Eliot's recent address before the Unitarian Club on the subject, "Secularization of Education not a Rational End." In this address President Eliot said, "I cannot but think that the policy of secularization, if thoroughly executed, would fail to preserve the public schools, as schools, for well nigh the whole population - which they should be. I cannot but think that the secularization of education is not a rational end to pursue." James Freeman Clarke, on the other hand, who spoke on the same theme before the same society, said that religion should not be brought into the public schools...
Discrimination ought to be used in taking notes as well as in other things. It is not necessary to write every syllable of a lecture, and in fact notes thus taken are well nigh useless in review, the kernel bearing too small a proportion to the husk; generally, however, a careful note-taker will sift out of an hour's lecture a supply of kernels sufficient to make a delightful repast...
...death of John Langdon Sibley, Librarian Emeritus, we feel that the college has met with a well-nigh irreparable loss. Not only his services in the position which he so ably filled have entitled him to the gratitude of Harvard, but his noble interest in the work of the poorer students, and the assistance which he stood ever ready to render them, have endeared him to the students of a former generation, and have secured him the respect of the undergraduates...