Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is making arrangements to obtain the services of a distinguished naturalist for those students interested in natural history who propose to elect the course marked Zoology. The name of the gentleman is, for reasons best known to Professor Agassiz, at present withheld. It is sufficient to know that he stands among the first in his profession...
...against their University Freshman Nine on any grounds in Massachusetts or Connecticut, and giving them a liberal share of gate-money if they will play on the 17th. This day is not convenient for Yale, and, after a great consumption of the electrical fluid, no definite answer has at present been obtained...
...instructors in that branch are apt to feel that the criticism arises from personal dislike rather than from any existing fault. I most certainly wish to avoid making any such impression, and because I definitely point out the course to which I refer, and endeavor plainly to present my objections to the method in which it is conducted, I hope I shall not be considered as presumptuous or given to a spirit of fault-finding. Why is it that students electing this course are never given an opportunity of inspecting specimens of metals, fossils, and rocks, to which continual reference...
...members of the same class. How pleasant must have been college life in those days, surrounded by friends and classmates! How easily could I forgive the men now engaged in their twentieth boxing-round in the room above, if they were in my class! And could I cherish my present vindictive feelings against the long-haired individual across the entry, who labors under the insane idea that he can play the piano, were he my bosom friend? No; I could, in that case, call upon this fellow and gently remonstrate with him, and he, of course, would immediately desist...
...longer be a palliative of transgression and a plea for distinction." He calls class feeling "the curse of our college," decidedly fails to establish the fact, and winds up with a paragraph the meaning of which is rather mysterious. Abolish class feeling, and for each one of the present four classes you will have half a dozen cliques and rings, the influence of which will make their members far more narrow-minded, bigoted, and snobbish than they can ever become while guided by the generous impulses of class friendship. But this is a subject worthy of abler treatment...