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...announcement of subjects for the Bowdoin prize dissertations will be eagerly welcomed by a considerable number of men whose competitive instincts seek an intellectual field for their exercise. Though the ultimate aim of such prizes must be to stimulate an active interest in the various lines of study, yet the distinction of winning a prize is in itself a perfectly commendable incentive to intellectual effort. It would be well if we had more prize competitions than we do. If that were the case, and the standards were kept high, the problem of securing more general recognition to scholarly attainment, which...
...demonstration for education as has been shown by the South in the last twenty-five years. The Norht may have invested $25,000,000 in education in the South, but the Southern people have paid $75,000,000 in the last 25 years for the education of children whose fathers were their slaves...
...conspicuous but not less important individual training which the gymnasium affords to every member of the University, takes a more prominent place. Though the gymnasium in not quite finished its approximate completion suggests once more the great indebtedness under which the whole University rests toward Mr. Augustus Hemenway by whose generosity the usefulness of the gymnasium will be so much increased...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
...result of the time and labor that is now given it. The last number of the Courant observed its 30th anniversary. The Record has issued its first poster, which in date and subject may be commemorative of Saturday's game. It is by R. M. Crosby '98, whose work on the Horse Show in Harper's Weekly was noticeable...