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SENIOR.[The writer of this letter has made a mistake in the use of the word "current." If he will turn to Worcester's Dictionary he will find that "current" means "now actually passing," and consequently it is incorrect when writing in April to speak of the "current month of February." His petition to the Directors reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very...
...Sunday Herald published a long account of the Harvard societies in its last issue. The Index seems to have supplied the writer with most of his information...
...hardly sufficient excuse for such flagrant abuse of our brother editor. The names "little innocent" and "mucker" which he is called in different parts of the paper can seldom be applied to the same individual; "child" and "frequenter of lager-beer saloons," too, are equally inconsistent. However, the writer of the communication is evidently a lady, - we beg pardon, we mean a co-ed, - perhaps the editress. How should she know that children do not frequent lager-beer saloons? It is natural, too, that she should feel hurt at being told that there are no men at Boston University...
...article called "Scholarships not Charities" in this number, the other side of the scholarship question is presented. In spite of what the writer says, we feel sure that the College papers have not misrepresented undergraduate opinion on this subject. As to President Eliot's reply to "T. W. H." being conclusive, we were not aware that there could be two opinions, but it seems that there can. Every one whom we have met, on the other hand, thought that the two letters in the Nation of March 13 were conclusive against the President. The writer of this article boldly claims...
...letters from an American now living in China have appeared in the Boston Advertiser. The writer advocates the establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek...