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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot was followed by Mr. Evarts. "I am confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible...
...Emerson as a poet and essayist was rated sixth or seventh in his class in Harvard," writes Josiah Quincy, whose letters have just been published. The names of the six or seven geniuses greater than Emerson have, unfortunately, escaped the memory of the biographer...
Through the kindness of the publisher, Mr. King, we have received advance copies of the new journal, Science, whose birth has been looked forward to with so much interest by the scientific world. The first number fully comes up to all expectations, both as regards typography and matter. The journal has a very artistic heading designed by Mr. C. H. Moore of Harvard, and is well printed on excellent paper, of convenient shape and size. Among the longer articles we notice contributions by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. E. H. Hall and Samuel Kneeland. A very interesting letter on a "Singular...
...York, and so escaped destruction. Mr. Pach hopes to be able to make temporary arrangements so that the regular work with the class may be resumed within a few days. As soon as these arrangements are determined upon announcement will be made; also a list of those seniors whose negatives have been destroyed will be published. It is hoped that such members of the class will exercise the utmost generosity in furnishing sittings, and so help forward the class work thus unavoidably delayed...
...short, Yale has concealed in her bosom a poet whose fame should be heralded abroad. Where he came from we do not know, - poets, they say, are born, not made, but this poet, we think, must, like the semi-heroine of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," never have been born at all, but merely "growed." Where he is going to, can, perhaps, be easier told. He will write one more effusion, and, then - well, if he lived in Massachusetts, Danvers would then claim...