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...desire to train, to make use of the track at the Park at any time they may wish to do so; and though the distance of the grounds from Cambridge is somewhat inconvenient, we sincerely hope that those who intend to enter the contest will not omit training on this account; for after all it is only a walk of twenty minutes...
...request of the class, the Trustees have voted to omit the Junior Exhibition. There will be no Senior vacation this year...
...words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...
...Faculty have voted to omit from the studies of Junior year that of Rhetoric, so that in future Juniors will have only two hours of required work through the year besides themes and forensics. Junior and Sophomore Rhetoric will be consolidated, thus making Sophomore Rhetoric a two-hour course for the entire year. Physics is to become a Freshman study only, and the Sophomores will have four hours' required work instead of six. Political Economy and Constitution will be replaced by some course in history, the nature of which has not yet been decided on; but the course will probably...
...perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name of an easy author. If a student prefers to omit this course, Tacitus and Juvenal are usually read in the later years to fully as great advantage. All these courses contain a large element of poetry. Course 5, on the other hand, is exclusively prose, which it is found that many prefer, and forms an excellent introduction to Ancient Philosophy...