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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spring in the present arrangement of chapel and recitation hours. On what grounds this decision is based I do not know, but I think it can be taken for granted that their action was influenced by the supposed desire of the students not to have the change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring out a vote on this two-sided question. I can readily understand...
...looking over the old curriculum about which several Transcript correspondents have had lately so much to say, it will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses...
...needless to say our sympathies are with the students, - not, mind you, with those few who are justly condemned, but with the college in general, which is made to bear the charges deserved by a few. It half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority...
...subject. He was warmly encored. But the finest individual effort of the evening was Mr. Russak's piano solo, "Regoletto," from Liszt. In answer to an encore he played Mill's "Murmuring Fountain." How far one's judgment may be biassed by outside motives is of course hard to say, but we thought at the time, and have found no cause to change our mind since, that Mr. Russak's playing was irreproachable both in mechanical execution and in fidelity of expression. The first piece of Mr. Babcock was an air, "Who treads the Path of Glory?" from Mozart...
...character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine Arts, I feel myself in no way bound to listen to personal and entirely irrelevant remarks on politics. If, however, I have made a mistake, and it is only...