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...Prospect Union has long hoped to publish a newspaper and this year it has seen this, as many others of its ambitions, fulfilled. The first number of the Prospect Union Review was put on sale Wednesday evening, March 21. It is in pamphlet form, consisting of eight pages of reading matter, a supplement of four pages, and eight pages of advertisements. It is very prettily made up and is excellently printed on very good paper. The Prospect Union has established a printing office and does its own printing...
...Lathrop began by speaking of reforms of the last three hundred years and especially those of the present time. So much, he said, is seen and heard now of so-called reforms, accompanied as they are by demonstrations and commotion, that it may be profitable to go back to the twelfth century and learn the lessons taught by the life of the great reformer, St. Francis of Assisi...
...early life, St. Francis was very fond of dress and pleasure, but he was ever generous, kind to the poor and pure, and in these traits can be seen the ruling characteristics of his after life. He had some ambition for military fame, but on becoming ill after one campaign in which he took part, a more serious conception of life took possession of him. Soon after, when he was on the way to join in another war, a voice from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service...
...hundred and fifty and twenty-nine are not number that are easily confused. Such a rumor never could have gained ground if students had refused to take hearsay for truth. The immense damage which this rumor might do to the college can readily be seen and it seems to us that, before such reports are spread, their accuracy should be tested. The Dean is anxious that, in such matters, the students should come to headquarters, and the reasonableness of the request is guarantee that it will be complied with. So much every undergraduate owes to the maintenance of Harvard...
...departments. The students are of a different class,-men and women only temporarily connected with the University and chiefly interested in training themselves as teachers. Very many have already had experience in teaching and have abundant theoretical knowledge, but feel themselves ignorant about experimental methods. It can be seen that the school is developing in such a way as to meet their needs; laboratory work occupies a large place in the curriculum, and the subjects of physical training and of pedagogy are brought to the front. An answer is attempted to the question of how best to train young bodies...