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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear, reliable and concise discussions of the great economical questions. Amid the confused mass of economic literature of to-day, when superficial writers are so abundant, when a flood of pamphlets, often as obscene in language as they are mistaken in facts, threatens to involve the student in endless perplexity, it is a relief to turn to authors of established reputation in their departments. That the "Quarterly Journal of Economics" should prove so successful in its purpose must be a great satisfaction...
...that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term. In the increasing study of the optional branches, Prof. Johnston saw the coming university at Princeton. Pointing to a portrait of Dr. McCosh, recently painted...
...boxes. Even to college students a card directory would be a great convenience. We frequently wish to look a fellow up, whom we know rather well, have met on many occasions, but we haven't an idea where his room is. Or there is a friend whom we have often seen entering and issuing from a certain entry; he has often asked us up to his room No. -. But for the life of us, when we go to see him, we cannot remember what number he told us. Or again memory plays us false, and we do not feel sure...
...part of the students. The sophomore exhibitions, at which members of the class contested publicly for a prize in oratory, were abolished several years ago by order of the faculty, because the students ceased to take an interest in the contests, and they were miserable failures, and often of disorder among students who attended...
...difficulty I think in getting a long list of members, but it would be very had to pursuade men to make the most of the club. The members would mostly he sleeping-members I am afraid; for the difficulty is to provide a motive to bring men regularly, often to the club, and what motive is there. Their friends they can see in their own rooms and there be more at home; - acquaintances they can meet in the playing fields, anywhere, - and what is the chance of meeting any given person among so many? Books, they are unsociable things...