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...direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school, has been resolved upon by the society ever since its organization. But the present unsettled condition of its finances does not allow any more extended arrangements than the ones already entered into. An annual income of six thousand dollars has been assured the school for the space of ten years. But as yet the absence of a permanent capital has clogged the workings to a slight degree. Under the circumstances it is a matter of congratulation that the society have succeeded as well as they have...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to suggest through your columns that the managers of the Athletic Association take some action to prevent crowding at the opening of the doors at the next meeting. Half an hour is not time enough for nearly two thousand persons to pass through a small gate and seat themselves in the hall. If at the next meeting there are as many present as there were at the last - probably there will be more - it will be very inconvenient, if not almost impossible, for a gentleman with ladies to get into the hall unless some change...
Expenses here are less than half what they are at Harvard. One cannot spend much over a thousand in legitimate expenses if he live even extravagantly. Four hundred dollars will allow a man to live here in the same style that a thousand does at Harvard...
Poet - "But, my dear sir, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and no steps have yet been taken to publish it." Publisher - "Don't be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait more than three thousand years before he got into print, and you can hardly claim that your poem is an Illiad." - [Fliegende Blatter...
...informed that the total number of students in the College de France and Sorbonne exceeds eight thousand, most of whom dwell in that section of Paris called the "Quartier Latin." Here it is that one sees and is able to judge of student life in its highest perfection. The Quartier is full of third and fourth rate "cafes," "brasseries" and "bals masques," and it is at these places that the French student seeks his recreation. He knows no sports, nor does he feel the need of any, for he is totally indifferent to the laws of health. He is most...