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...other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs...
...what effect the present close election in England has upon the English undergraduates. The English Universities have always been strongholds of conservatism, and although it seems strange to the democratic American that a body of educated men should so place themselves in opposition to the liberal spirit of progress, it must be remembered that a large number of students belong to the aristocratic families...
...have sprouted. Hereafter, the fall work being thoroughly reviewed is to be set aside forever, and we are to be permitted to combine our energies upon the task in hand. The change must prove beneficial in every respect, and we hail it most cordially as a promising sign of progress. - Williams...
...verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges are in the earlier stages just mentioned. Here is the last issue of one of them whose contents are "What is an education?" (eight pages long and "continued...
...looks back on President Porter's administration will find it one of progress. Every department of the university has been improved, and that too in spite of a scarcity of money; and while no small share of the improvement is due to others than the outgoing president, yet it must all be put down as having been brought about during his fourteen years in the presidency. The two Divinity School buildings, the Farnam and Durfee dormitories, the beautiful Battell Chapel, the Sloane Laboratory, and the initial steps in the erection of Lawrence Hall and the Young Men's Christian Association...