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Scarcely a day goes by which does not bring in one shape or another some complaint regarding the execrable ventilation of the library. It is Harvard's boast to have a library which possesses more advantages for students than that of any other University in this country; but of what benefit are the treasured books if, in order to read them one has to suffer either a close, shiftin atmosphere or to endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with...
...offensive cigarette and sicken upon the masculine bulldog. Let him not drink too much lemonade, nor think a remorse should be worn conspicuously. Let him not drag about a stick he can't carry for two consecutive minutes. Let him not play the drum at midnight, nor boast of wild feats he never attempted, nor attempt wild feats he can never perform. Little boys should be seen and not heard, and not seen too much either...
...curious thing that proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this...
...publish in another column an extract from a western newspaper, concerning Harvard and its teachings. It is not for us to boast over the great advance which has been made under President Eliot's administration, but we can agree with the Exchange that it has been in all respects most fortunate, and that our president deserves all the enjoyment which he can crowd into six short months. It is a source of pleasure to us that Harvard is drawing more and more from the West each year, and that the claim formerly loudly advanced by Yale that...
...news that Princeton is about to erect a new Art School ought to awaken in the university some similar plan of advancing this important branch of study. Harvard has very little to boast of in the way of art collections if we except the plaster casts placed without much show o system in the various recitation rooms, the art publications in the library, and the very meagre collection of models and drawings owned by the Art Department. The treasures treasured in the rooms of the Harvard Art Club cannot with justice be counted among Harvard's collections...