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...remains for men to show by their attendance that there is a real demand for them felt in the College. We feel convinced that no one who attends will feel that he has wasted his time. Professor Child and Mr. Perry have certainly shown a disinterested desire to afford us all the advantages in their power by offering to give these lectures, and it is but common courtesy to show some appreciation...
...pleasant to anticipate the advantages which the machine will confer upon instructors, and the great relief it will afford them. No longer will it be necessary for the conscientious Professor to spend the Christmas vacation in examining blue books, exhausting his energies in the vain endeavor to decide whether a book is entitled to 39 or 40 per cent, a question quite beyond the skill "even of a Professor of Harvard College." And the conscience of the unconscientious instructor, who will not trouble himself with an examination of the books, flattering himself that he has an intuitive perception...
...Acta Columbiana wants to have every American crew that can afford to, go across the water...
...Post-Office Department are willing and anxious to accommodate the students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...
...subjects which cannot be written upon without some knowledge and thought is evident, but that this should be urged as an objection against them seems nonsensical. If each writer was obliged to take up his subject without any previous preparation, it might require more time than he could afford, but among so many subjects surely one can be found in which he is interested and upon which he has already formed some opinion...