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...legal history, and political economy, we doubt very much if better opportunities for the study of the various branches of the political sciences are afforded at any other college than at Harvard. The enterprise which the political economy department has shown in the increase of its courses during the past few years has been amply repaid by the interest which has been fostered in this important branch of the political sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...recently completed course of lectures which has been given during the past season under the auspices of the Finance Club, reflects great credit upon the president and other members of the club who have been instrumental in starting these lectures. The course has embraced a lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson upon a topic of interest to all students of political economy, lectures upon the great industries of iron, cotton and woolen, and a lecture by Prof. Laughlin upon the study of Political Economy. The interest which has been shown in these lectures by the large audiences which attended them, must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY LIFE AT HEIDELBERG. | 5/6/1884 | See Source »

...lightened by the removal of several unnecessary braces. The juniors have been greatly encouraged by the arrival of their new shell, made after the model of the '84 boat. It is a well braced, steady boat, but barely large enough. The junior crew has made more improvement in the past two weeks than any of the other crews, due perhaps to the fact that there was more room for it. It is said that they were able to keep up with the university crew for a considerable distance in a pull the two crews took together last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLASS CREWS. | 5/5/1884 | See Source »

...great interest among the students which existed when the base-ball boom was started, seems to be dying out, except among the members of the nines. Never has greater enthusiasm concerning anything been exhibited at Columbia than in regard to base-ball during the past spring, and, as events would tend to show, never has enthusiasm so quickly commenced to pass away. Although the association comprises a large number of members, larger, in fact, than any other, it has already been compelled to go into debt. [Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA'S FICKLENESS. | 5/1/1884 | See Source »

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