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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author's life and writings. Henry Cabot Lodge writes an excellent article on Willian H. Seward, and Miss Harriet W. Preston discourses on "Matthew Arnold as a Poet." Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin's article on "The Selver Danger" is a timely one, as is also the article on "The Progress of Nationalism," by Edward Stanwood. The serial stories by Mr. Crawford and Dr. Mitchell are continued, as well as Henry James's series of articles on travels in France. The poems are contributed by Mr. Aldrich, H. H., and Edith M. Thanas. The book reviews and contributor's club...
...beginning at Cambridge will have to be made by allowing, for admission, an option of ancient and modern history, but if a choice could be made, the American and English history of the past 200 years should be taught at the preparatory schools. It is a question whether the progress necessary in public schools can be obtained without optional studies. A youth of 18 cannot obtain even a fair mastery over all the subjects which today are offered for a secondary education. Those who think otherwise think that the five languages, mathematics, history, and all the other studies...
...with which to form one. Moreover, there were no practice boats, the boat-house was almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which rowed in the 1873 college regatta, Yale was probably physically weaker than any other. Notwithstanding that fact, however...
...sophomores are at present rowing in the best form of any of the class crews. Their oars fall well together, and considering the fact that there are four new men in the boat, they have made good progress since they began work on the river. On Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays Colonel Bancroft finds time to coach them; on the other days his place is taken by Mr. Perin, stroke of the '83 crew. The sophomores are seated in the following order...
Class feeling has become quite marked lately at De Pauw University, Indiana. It began by the seniors adopting high hats as the insignia of their class.-These were promptly stolen by the sophomores, who had their pictures taken in them. The other evening, during the progress of a sophomore performance, a number of freshmen entered the hall with large paper sacks inflated and labeled "sophomore wind." After waiting to hear three or four speeches they started to leave the hall. Dr. Ridpath who was presiding endeavored to stop them by locking the doors, but the freshmen burst them open...