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...that there may be good writing in verse which is not poetry, and poetry which is not good writing, - two possibilities which are often lost sight of, although examples of them are seen in the college papers more often, perhaps, than in any other periodicals. Of the various schools, the long-anapestic-line one has perhaps the least poetry in it, and naturally so, because the metre is less removed from prose than any other, and you can get in a good many words in each line before you have to make a rhyme. The writers who make the most...
...properly pursue the various courses in history of the Junior and Senior years, the instructors in that department consider necessary a sufficient knowledge of German to enable a man to use text and reference books in that language. It has been found hitherto that a man might diligently study German for two years, and at the end of that time be unfitted - so far as German was concerned - to take either of the courses in history. The reason is, that what has been read in the regular courses has been mostly or wholly poetry and easy fiction, the styles...
...course. If not these, others of the same character. Founders of the American Union, by Dr. Bluntschli; Origin and Nature of Feudal Institutions, by Dr. Kuhns; Laws which govern Historical Research, by Professor Von Sybel of the University of Bonn; and essays on different periods of German history by various other writers...
...electing this course are never given an opportunity of inspecting specimens of metals, fossils, and rocks, to which continual reference is made, and the description of which forms no small portion of the work used as a text-book? Students are compelled to learn the classification of rocks, their various subdivisions, and the numerous qualities of many in their simple state, and of some after they have been changed by subterraneous action; and this, too, without having seen a single specimen. Nearly every student who has elected this course feels that this method of teaching is not a very successful...
COMPLAINT of the mutilation or disfiguring of books belonging to the society libraries is, we believe, always in order. Our attention has lately been drawn to the various comments, side notes, and cabalistic marks which spoil the appearance of many an interesting work; it surely ought to be borne in mind that one's private opinions cannot be of interest to the general reader. The present is also a proper time to suggest that books belonging to the Institute of 1770 should be returned immediately, in order that they may be arranged in the new room. It is very pleasant...