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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half past two o'clock in the afternoon, preceding the examinations in N. H. 2, Prof. Mark will meet the class and answer all written questions which may be handed to him before two o'clock of that...
...Advocate commemorates the closing of its fortieth volume and the coming of its twentieth birthday in a number wholly made up by its past editors. The contributors of prose are W. G. Peckham, '67, F. G. Ireland, '68, C. H. Swan, '70, C. C. Stein, '71, W. R. Tyler, '74, C. H. Barrows, '76, Lindsay Swift, '77, E. W. Morse, '78, Woodward Hudson, '79, Arthur Hale, A. B. Hart and J. L. Pennypacker, '80; of verse, L. W. Clark and T. C. Pease, '75, George Pellew, '80, G. L. Kittredge, '82, A. M. Lord, '83, T. L. Frothingham...
...more experience than any of us, yet his assertions are certainly debatable. He further laments the weakness of our English Department. His criticism, however, is based upon the testimony of graduates of two years and over. Plainly he knows nothing of the reforms wrought among us during the past twelve months. E. G. Ireland, '68, advocates raising the standard of our preparatory schools, until they are more nearly on a level with the German Gymnasia. He very justly says that such a change is needed to make the elective system effective. The subject is timely, and well worth attention. Under...
...that "it is the glory of Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new world are contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which...
...lecture system, as mapped out for the present winter, is well calculated to meet the needs of our undergraduates, yet there is one feature of the winter lectures of past years that we would gladly see repeated. No course of lectures, Dr. Royce's lectures on Californian history, perhaps, excepted, has been received with such favor as that delivered under the auspices of the Historical Society, during the winter of 1883-84, on the campaigns and battles of the Rebellion. Great as was the interest then manifested in this subject, we feel that there exists to-day even a stronger...