Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Say unperceiving friends; alas...
...have nothing to say about the importance of cosmic philosophy, or about its truths or errors: I only wish to suggest very briefly some general reasons for forming an elective...
...called "Harvard Spelling-Matches" we should like to say a few words. The students who figured in the spelling-match at Music Hall on Saturday last were not representatives of Harvard University. They were students of Harvard University, but were not authorized by any one except themselves to enter the contest. The general feeling in college is against such exhibitions of learning in public halls and theatres, especially when prizes are offered and entrance-money pocketed by the managers...
...parallel. It is proposed to unite them next year, and to institute an advanced course in the same subject, to be conducted in the same general way. Whether there is at this moment open to undergraduates a course in which Constitutional Law is critically studied we are unable to say. If there be none, it is to be hoped that one will soon be supplied...
...however, the Harvard student can study Political Science in a manner very similar to that which the Post demands; and it is safe to say that, if he avoid the cramming against which our former editorial was directed, he will be able to undertake a voyage in the ship, of state without fear of unpleasant consequences from the unsteady motion of the vessel...