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...each language. While we do not advocate an entirely classical course throughout one's whole college career, we do advise that some compromise be made between a classical and practical education, and that the ancient languages be taken through sophomore year so that the student may read standard authors whose words are as alive today as when uttered many hundred years ago, and that all the time and trouble spent over the elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will...
...headquarters for the foot-ball teams, while in the early spring the base-ball and lacrosse teams could occupy it. As the swimming tank could be boarded over in winter it would pay to have a number of chest weights, or even rowing apparatus there, thus enabling the student whose tendency is not toward prize athletics to get some show at the weights in the new gymnasium. If the above intricate suggestion is impracticable, then let the Bicycle Club, as has been already remarked in these columns, occupy the building as a club house, storing the bicycles there during...
...form a school, but united enough in general subjects and aim to exercise in the near future a decided influence. Of the younger generation of historians this circle at Cambridge is the most promising. Besides the Harvard instructors there should be named as belonging to it, T. W. Higginson, whose current articles in Harper's are expected to form the basis of a work upon American History Justin Winsor, the librarian of Harvard, who, it is known is engaged in writing a critical history of America; Mr. Arthur Gilman, author of a recently published Short History of the American people...
With such an impetus from his surroundings, with the incomparable advantages of the Harvard library, whose collection of Americans is, we believe surpassed by but one library in this country,-the Carter Brown library in Providence,-in addition to courses 2 and 13 in United States Constitutional History, course 18 in American Colonial History, course 6 and 8 in Political Economy, treating of the History of the Tariff and of Finance in the United States, and course 4 in the same subject, touching on the economic history of America; the opportunities of the student of the history of this country...
...Clipper says of the Lehigh tug-of-war team at the games, that their previous work gave them courage, which did not prevail against the superior ability of the better-drilled Harvards, whose anchor, cool as an iceberg, exercised intelligent control over...