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...hands of Professor Palmer in the last number of the Andover Review, some new and valuable material. It is now three years since it was first decided to allow freshmen at Harvard to choose for themselves the manner of work which was required of them. The effect of that action has had time to develop, and what has been discovered? None of those evils which we were told were sure to follow the reckless piece of liberation which the faculty had displayed. Students have had the advantage of an extra year wherein they might learn how to work...
...persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than it has ever been before. But that is no ground for satisfaction. A powerful college must forever be dissatisfied. Each year it must address itself anew to strengthening the tenacity of its students in their zeal...
...this evil to be remedied? If a man has the face to lie to the Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...have been informed that careful search on the shelves and on the desks of the reading-room, fails to bring the much needed book to light. Who is the selfish man who would deprive a hundred fellow students of their rights, and subject them to such great inconvenience? His action is certainly reprehensible...
President Barnard of Columbia, and President Webb of the College of the City of New York, are not in favor of a conference of college presidents to take action in regard to the regulation of athletic sports as proposed by President McCosh of Princeton. They claim that fully as good results can be secured by correspondence as by a conference, and a saving of valuable time made...