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...Introduction to the Middle Ages" is the title of a historical work recently written by Professor Emerton of Harvard. The book covers the period between the years 375-814 A. D. The history, although short, is very complete, and is not only of great value to the student as a text book, but of interest to any reader who is fond of historical narrative. The book is published in a very attractive form, and great care has been exercised with regard to the printing, for the type used is uncommonly large and clear...
...faculty of Dartmouth have adopted a marking system based upon that of Harvard, and will no longer assign to each student a definite rank in his class...
...feeling of the college with regard to certain new regulations which the board was consi ering, a sub-committee on the government of college affairs was appointed to confer with the undergraduate committee consisting of the four class presidents. The conference showed the need of consulting a representative student body before taking action on any new plan of government, for several schemes of rigorous college discipline were brought up, the folly of which was soon made evident. Had the overseers taken this step of consulting the student's ideas and wishes on college discipline before, they would never have made...
...Monthly for November contains a number of interesting articles covering a wide range of subjects. The graduate paper is "The Student's Business, a Homily," contributed by Professor L. B. R. Briggs. Critical articles on Harvard life and its influences have been so numerous of recent months that Harvard men are beginning to feel like specimens in an educational museum. If all the criticisms were as good humored as Professor Briggs' we could not complain. He has been most intimately associated with Harvard undergraduates for many years and surely knows whereof he speaks. His comments on the abstracting influence...
...very beautiful, but the expression is so involved and the versification is so peculiar, that it is difficult to get at the real meaning without several readings. Mr. Bates has a short poem, "Behind the Barriers," of a quiet descriptive style, but not especially noteworthy. The editorial is on "Student Officers," and as usual is worthy careful reading. The number closes with the usual book notices...