Word: yeares
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...present month. Colonel John D. Washburn, of Worcester, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the occasion. E. Rockwood Hoar, the President of the Association of Alumni, will preside at the dinner, and Rev. Charles E. Grinnell, of Charlestown, at the Junior dinner. It is hoped that next year, instead of the present cramped space, the dining-room in Memorial Hall can be used...
...been determined, therefore, to try the experiment next year of having a course in German in which the "classic" writers and composition shall have no place, and in which the sole aim shall be to familiarize those who take it with the general style of modern German writers on history and philosophy. No single author or work will be used, but essays and lectures on historical and kindred subjects by professors at the different German universities. If they can be obtained in a cheap form, some of the following historical monographs will be read in the course. If not these...
...course is especially designed for members of the present Freshman Class, but Sophomores can take it for the whole of their Junior year in place of a three-hour elective for half the year. It is considered advisable by those having authority, that men who intend to devote much time to history either next year or the year following, should take this course in German...
...whole affair was a fitting conclusion to a most successful society year...
...election of editors for the Cornell Era has taken place at Cornell. They are chosen by a class vote at the end of the Sophomore year. The opinion has been here expressed that the papers of our own University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar system than by the one now in practice. In reply, we would state that, as it seems to us, a class election would be open to serious objections. A man's ability as a writer cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have...