Word: saying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary is already too small for the rapidly increasing business that is brought to it; and it is unnecessary to say that the class rooms are far too few. So small a number does not allow proper ventilation between lectures, and even if there were enough to accomodate all the classes conveniently, this would be a great disadvantage; but when it is added that no one of the rooms is large...
...electoral college, in which at present one doubtful state, New York, casts the deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...hour examination we cannot see. The faculty profess the greatest desire to abolish the test system and at the same time they enforce it in courses where better and fairer tests have already been given. The inconsistency is apparent. It is our humble opinion that the examination system, to say nothing of the amount of written outside work required in various courses, is being pushed to an extreme...
DEAR SIR-Will you kindly say to your readers that during my residence in Cambridge, to and including November 21st, I shall be very glad to make the acquaintance of any Harvard student who may desire to make my acquaintance, not only during appointed hours at Wadsworth House, from 9 to 11 a. m., but at any other hours by special appointment, which can be made with me either by mail or by conference after Chapel. Being comparatively at leisure while here my, time is more at the service of the university than it would other wise...
...report shows the necessity of strict economy in all departments of athletics, and we would emphasize this fact most forcibly before the captains of the teams, especially. We shall be the last to say anything against necessary expense, we do, however, remonstrate against the employment of university moneys for any but strictly legitimate purposes. The football and baseball teams particularly must bear this in mind if they intend to meet the new obligation which they have taken upon themselves this year. Finally we thank the Auditing committee for its work and for the admirable manner in which the result...