Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long-felt desire for a more extended record of Wellesley events, the Wellesley Courant has decided to publish one issue a week exclusively devted, save for advertisements, to Wellesley College. Miss Louise B. Swift, '90 and Miss Alice A. Stevens, '91, have been chosen editors. Beside reports from the various departments and clubs of the college, a leading feature of the Courant will be the literary articles which will appear from time to time. It is expected that not only the students, by continued efforts, but also the alumni and professors by occasional articles, will contribute to the success...
...although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet has appeared, traces the historical significance of each form and points out in what respects the sonnet has failed hitherto to fulfil all the needs of the poets' art. Mr. Dodge shows such a delivery of thought and criticism that we are led to believe...
...wish to say a word to those who are in the habit of inserting notices in the CRIMSON. In past years it has always been customary to print various notices which are important to the members of different athletic teams, clubs and societies. We find, however, that this privilege is liable to abuse; that many notices are published which are of little consequence to any one in college, and that other notices are being reprinted day after day. This crowds out of the columns of the CRIMSON much matter which is of interest to our subscribers and which ought...
...WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, the world famed specialist in mind diseases, says: "I am familiar with various systems for improving the mind, including, among others, those of Feinaigle, Gourand and Dr. Pick, and I have recently become acquainted with the system in all its details and applications taught by Prof. Loisette. I am therefore enabled to state that his is, in all its essential features, entirely original; that its principles and methods are different from all others, and that it presents no material analogies to that of any other system...
...easy to discover who is best fitted to fill each position. Not only will the class, by adopting this method, avoid the risk of having a wrong man to fill a captaincy, but also it will induce greater exertions on the part of all the men trying for the various teams...