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...proposed to raise among the pupils and friends of the late Rev. Dr. James Walker, President of Harvard University, the sum of from five thousand to ten thousand dollars to endow a scholarship in that University, and to provide a suitable memorial of him in Memorial Hall. Considerable subscriptions have already been made to the fund. Mr. John A. Lowell, of Boston, heads the committee, and has such associates as Charles W. Eliot, Phillips Brooks, Francis E. Parker, and Henry W. Foote. The New York members of the committee are Samuel Osgood, Joseph H. Choate, and James C. Custer...
When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...
...special report on Libraries, we find that our Library has doubled within the last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared...
...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 of us are real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother...
...opportunities for contrasting the behavior of the lovers with that which novel-writers nowadays give to their heroes. On marking the difference, one involuntarily feels almost proud of his century for being in this particular a little less ridiculous than bygone times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical...