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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to ventilation it may be said that certain recitation rooms in Harvard are very poorly ventilated, worse than the worst in Tewksbury. The Kidder Technology building was erected with a special view to good ventilation, and the instructors feel certain that the work done in it is much better than that done in the old building. As for athletics, the best for the college are those that are most general. Intercollegiate athletics are a good thing, but must be regarded as a means to an end. There is a great need of reform in training. There is no reason...
...Letter by Mr. Finlay is a welcome contribution to the much discussed problem of Harvard's inferiority in athletics. Coming from one who has had such good opportunities to judge the situation on its true merits, the views expressed deserve careful consideration. The writer finds the solution of Yale's victories in the fact that "Yale has better men," and that where our rivals have not been physically superior, the discrepancy has been made up by excellent management. He thinks that the "talk about college loyalty in athletics is nonsense," that what we need is more love for athletic sports...
...letter in the Nation on the teaching of pedagogy in our colleges, part of which we reprint in another column, deserves attention, as it deals with a subject of great and growing importance. Teaching as a profession is claiming a much broader field than ever before, and in the same proportion the need of a preparatory training is becoming more evident. Our high schools and academies are suffering much because many of their teachers, though college graduates, are utterly inexperienced, and must spend the first year or more in learning methods. This year of training may be a valuable...
...result of these methods on the student is that he obtains no lasting specific results from much of his college course. On the other hand he could not devote as much time to a course in manual training "without retaining all his life some special power in the direction in which he has worked...
...20th of last month. Considering the rotten condition of college athletics the action of Harvard in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association was not untimely, and if her motives are pure, she deserves great praise. The Advocate fears, however, that the students were influenced just as much by pique at a college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw is a firm "declaration on Harvard's part that she has become dissatisfied with...