Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such an idea. Further: "The idea that a certain amount of information and a certain familiarity with the lines of thought in each of the leading departments of human knowledge is essential to an education, is wholly ignored." We will venture to state as to this that the preparation required...
...careful examination of the catalogue fails to show the name of any person called Charles Mahon, the Boston Herald of yesterday, to the contrary notwithstanding...
...willing to help support a paper for the simple reason that they wish to show themselves grateful to the students for their patronage. There is another class of people who will not advertise in a college paper because they think that the students are obliged to patronize them. A person who owns one of the leading hotels in Boston, who probably has more Harvard trade than any other man in Boston, when recently asked for a small card for a college paper, said, "You tell the editors of your paper and of other papers in the college, that they...
...find that such rumors are entirely groundless. When the rumor was first started the police were, of course, notified. They looked the matter up carefully, and found that there was no foundation for any fears of having small-pox in college, or in Cambridge, either, for that matter. A person should be very careful about circulating such reports, as they not only cause great uneasiness in college, but are copied throughout the country. Very soon we expect to learn from some of our exchanges that "there is a great small-pox panic at Harvard...
...bill against polygamy will be the first brought before the House of Representatives today. It provides that no person living in bigamy or polygamy shall be eligible to a seat in the House of Representatives as a delegate from any of the territories in the United States...