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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- N. H. 4 is one of the very valuable and most popular courses in college. Therefore, every attempt should be made to have the lecture room in its comfortableness in accordance with the popularity and interest of the course. But complaints are continually made that the lectureroom is altogether too hot for the enjoyment of the lectures. Men who climb to such a height as the top of the Museum, expect to get above the regions of intense heat; but in these expectations they are terribly disappointed. A temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, Farenheit...
Owing to these unfavorable comments, the custom has of late been abandoned. We hope that eighty-eight will make no attempt to revive...
...college are well known to have been so signally successful in the civil service as to be placed in a distinct class. They lead with ease in the law school, and in the medical college. They are not afraid of competition with the graduates of any college. Every attempt to give to seniors, or to juniors election in their studies has proved to be contrary to the system which has produced the results of which we are justly proud. Everything of this nature appears to us to be a simple bid for popularity-injurious and demoralizing to the young...
...special consideration from the faculty. "It is the special students of the college," says the report, "into whose quality it is most interesting to inquire. From the year's report exhibiting the work of the special students, it appears that some achieve an extraordinary amount of work, while others attempt little, and complete less." Naturally enough the special students include in their number both the men who have come to get every benefit possible from the instruction given in the college, together with those whose chief ambition is to do as little work as they can, and at the same...
...appeared. Unless a better selection in respect to the authors under study is made, little benefit can be derived from the reserved books upon which the great majority are compelled to rely for their knowledge of the writers. Irving is as poorly represented as Goldsmith. No attempt seems to be made toward a biographical study of the writers. None of the standard lives are reserved, and the biographical study of the writers appears to be left to the discretion of the student...