Word: noted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After an enthusiastically appreciative review of the proceedings at the dinner, especially of the remarks of Professors McVane and Palmer, the writer concludes: "And thus it is, as we started out among other things to note, that colleges are now spreading themselves - most prominently and distinctly among them, here in Chicago at least, the venerable but ever youthful school of learning at Cambridge...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...Lost - A note book in History 10. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at Bartlett's for H. B. Cabot...
...Dyke: New York. Fords, Howard & Hulburt." This books contains many suggestions in regard to reading which will be found especially valuable by college students and others who have to make constant use of books. The author's treatment of such topics as novel-reading, skipping, system in reading, note-books, memorizing, night-reading, exercise and choice of books is remarkably practical. The chapter on the use of the public library is perhaps the most useful of all in the book. Many of the author's suggestions are novel, but he is not dogmatic in his assertions and simply asks...
...rejoice to learn from a Yale paper that "Happy Baby Soothing Syrup" is having an extensive sale at the New Haven institution. No news could be better than this, nor more fruitful in promises for the future of the Yale freshmen. It is pleasant also to note that it is entirely due to advertising in the college papers that this panacea has attained so wide a popularity at our sister college. The moral is obvious...