Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In this university of specialists and specialized research, it seems as if one branch of study was becoming restricted beyond the point of advisability. Reference is made to the theme work of the present sophomore class. Perhaps there has been enough written pro and con on the English courses and the methods in use, but objection can still be made in one direction at least. Criticism figures first and foremost in almost every part of required work in sophomore English. The second and third themes are in themselves supposed to be criticisms, and after these each student...
...will deny that the abundance of work required in the course and the great stress put upon English writing, carry within themselves the true theory of thorough culture in this most important branch, but at the same time, there are many things which require just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt...
...track and field athletics. The fall freshman athletic meeting is always looked forward to with much interest, not with any great expectation that records will be broken, but because it is the first time that the freshmen have occasion to show their skill in that branch of athletics which has ever been peculiarly Harvard's, We cannot impress too strongly upon the competitors the necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends largely upon the records which are made at this and at the university meeting on Saturday. With eighty-five...
...visitor who for the first time enters a students room at Harvard is struck with the great number of photographs which adorn his walls. They are one of the best incentives to an artistic spirit which accompany student life. The interest which is taken in this branch of art has been revived by the distribution throughout the college of "Catalogues of Photographic Reproductions of Works of Art." These little books open up to the student a source of artistic enjoyment which can hardly be equalled by any other means as economical. There is something connected with these reproductions...
...Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both are regarded as worthless. They are given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army of Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Law, etc., is turned loose upon an unsuspecting community that had, up to that time, lived in blissful iignorance of the latent talent wasting in its midst, and destined to be lost forever to the world, had not some keen...