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...meanly supplemented by the weak and indistinct utterances of a great multitude of his students when heard in public. If public oratory be a need in this republic, public oratory Harvard College must teach; so far as it is the public servant in the higher education, it will teach. - Transcript...
...Among the various religious sects represented at the University the Oxthodox are in a vast majority, counting, as they do, 1551 members, while the Old Believers are only 6, the Arminians 21, the Catholics 281, the Lutherans 124, the Calvanists 16, the Jews, 268, and the Mohammedans 5." - Transcript...
...urged to pay their subscriptions at once. The room needs funds. Files of the following papers will be sold to the highest bidder. Judge, Puck, Life, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, Punch, Scientific American, Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Pall Mall Budget, Youth's Companion, Nation, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Columbia Spectator, Yale Courant, and others. Any student desiring files of any papers may communicate with the undersigned...
...neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive; but they carry through very definite ends, and compel even the dilletante's unwilling respect. - Boston Transcript...
Though the extract from the Boston Transcript which we print on another page may be somewhat overdrawn, yet it cannot be denied that it contains a pretty accurate portrait of many a character to be met in college society. Whether the "clever" man be a desirable product of college education or not, it must be admitted that he is a constantly increasing quantity in our midst. But, after all, if all possessors of a degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should...