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Another evidence of the dissolution of that generation of men which started Harvard University on her tremendous nineteenth century expansion is marked by the resignation from the Corporation of Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott. As a friend of the late Charles William Eliot and in his various official capacities to the University Dr. Walcott has witnessed the development of the institution from one of centralized to national significance. Thirty seven years of service have placed him in a position where he may now survey the results of the efforts expended by him and his associates. And thirty seven years have given...
...summary of the matches follows: Stimpson (H) lost to Cox (U), 4 to 3; Barnum (H) defeated J. Beale (U), 4 to 2; Morrill (H) defeated Blair, 2 and 1; Cole (H) defeated R. Beale (U), 1 up on the nineteenth hole; Stimpson and Barnum (H) defeated Cox and J. Beale (U), 1 up; Morrill and Cole (H) defeated Blair and R. Beale...
...rouses students, if they are rousable, to a very large amount of purely disinterested reading. In the Junior year for example, an English tutor will put men through a course in nineteenth century prose with no special bearing on the examinations. One energetic tutor last year reported that in the first two months and a half of the year a Sophomore read, outside his regular class work, and discussed with his tutor, 13 plays, two long poems, and one long novel, most of these being comparatively recent (not ephemeral) and not bearing particularly on the general examinations, work which must...
...collection of his grandfather, who as Minister of Justice under the first Napoleon was in a position to accumulate many important official and unofficial publications. The grandson's interest in the Revolutionary period expanded to include almost everything concerning the relations of church and state in France during the nineteenth century...
...fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind. In the nineteenth century it was called mal de siecle, mal de Rene, Werther-sickness--any number of names. Today it bears the label of "student suicide", probably because the public is now interested in students or at least in thousands of boys and girls who are termed students. But even before the advent...