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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies, too, in which the student is deprived of a selection. There is good ground also for the complaint often heard respecting the severe requirements of the Freshman year in the various branches of Mathematics. These are so difficult that many students become discouraged and disgusted to such a degree that few electives in Mathematics are ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...student eagerly steps forward. "If he were only in Matthews, now," says he, "he could get down on all fours, crawl through the entry, break in two doors, and so reach the fire-escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVED! | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...Suppose the doors were too strong, you fool!" says a student of fine arts. "What we want is good architecture; our College dormitories are not suitable for men of culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVED! | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...college paper nor every intelligent student that moulds the opinion of the college; the influential person is he who is called the "popular man." Our college life is like a circus, - a modern circus with many horses and several clowns. The popular man is the dazzling bareback rider; the rest of us are the horses and the clowns. Round and round walk the clowns, - round and round the ring go the horses, - up in the air goes the rider. Applause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO MAKES PUBLIC OPINION AT HARVARD? | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...have no opinions of their own, should adopt Swellington's opinions. Swellington would not be a popular man if his opinions were not worth having. But what a responsibility he has! He is probably a noble fellow, but is he always as guarded in his conduct as a student whose opinion becomes public opinion should be? Does he remember that every act of his will be imitated by a score of his admirers? For instance, it is Gosling's private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO MAKES PUBLIC OPINION AT HARVARD? | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

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