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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...action taken by Harvard in '69, and have improved upon the example. Some remarks we have heard expressed looking to a race between the Columbia four and a four picked from the Harvard eight. It is noticeable that the suggestion has found favor mainly with those who are unfamiliar with Columbia's record at Springfield in '77, or those who did not witness the Harvard-Yale race at New London. Columbia has won from Englishmen on English waters the Visitors' Cup, and she has Harvard's hearty congratulation. If we wish to win an English cup, we must row with...
...then, quite possible for all to read well. The next question is, whether good reading should be enforced in the recitations. Professor Child's elective in Shakespeare is made as instructive as his enviable reputation would lead one to expect. He teaches many things which those unfamiliar with the subject could not find out by themselves, and does his best to impart to the students his own evident interest and enthusiasm; but as he himself acknowledges, he takes no pains with the reading, which accordingly is weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable beyond description...
...unrepresented as well as from those well known in connection with former editions. As many as three hundred lines have been added to the quotations from Shakespeare alone. On the other hand, no maxims of even the best writers have been added which seemed to the author to be unfamiliar to the general class of readers, although they might be of undoubted excellence. The index also, without which such a book would be like a library without a catalogue, has been enlarged and revised. Like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as soon as a new edition of this book is published...
...downright dissipation, naturally bright and ambitious, urged on by a schoolmaster proud of having the opportunity to fit one man for college, and sustained by the admiration of a circle of unlettered relatives, you are, all at once, removed to a position totally different. Surroundings, duties, pleasures, everything is unfamiliar. You are, in fact, transplanted from easy-going boyhood, with loving hands ever ready to guard you from the first approach of trouble or temptation, to a station imposing upon you the responsibilities of manhood, without experience or preparation. Can it justly be a matter of surprise that at your...