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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Williams Vidette is voluminous, but so much space is occupied by Book-notices, Exchanges, etc., that little is left for original matter. That little, however, is good. The following is a specimen of its wit: "The Professor of Geology told the Seniors, in a lecture, that during the Triassic age, huge batrachian, frog-like animals, as large as cows, infested the earth. One of the class wishes to know if that was the origin of bull-frogs...
...tutors and professors are not exempted from nicknames, which are supposed to be more appropriate than the ones with which they were christened. Nearly every man in college has some word given him by his classmates which fits him better than it would any one else, generally taking its origin from some real or imagined foible. If he inclines to excessive eating, he may be dubbed "knight of the carving-knife," and for short, "knight." Does he manifest a tendency for long calls and annoying affection for your cigarettes, his sobriquet will be "Fig"; if he persists, "the Fig." These...
...those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses to accept a religion which cannot be justified by man's own powers of reasoning. Just as the word "culture" in its present sense is of very recent origin, so the movement, or whatever else we may choose to call the influence exercised by its apostles, is the index of nothing less than a new theory of religion. That culture, as ordinarily used, always has this meaning, or that it does not primarily denote full intellectual development, it would...
...historical and kindred subjects by professors at the different German universities. If they can be obtained in a cheap form, some of the following historical monographs will be read in the course. If not these, others of the same character. Founders of the American Union, by Dr. Bluntschli; Origin and Nature of Feudal Institutions, by Dr. Kuhns; Laws which govern Historical Research, by Professor Von Sybel of the University of Bonn; and essays on different periods of German history by various other writers...
...origin of the plan is due to an association of Boston ladies, who also undertake the conduct of the examinations, which will be held in Boston. The College, however, stands ready to make a similar arrangement with any association in the country which can guarantee a sufficient number of candidates. Such a system has been operating successfully during the past ten or twelve years at the English Universities...