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...past year and the strong footing it has now obtained in the college. We have referred before to the various improvements and additions that have been made this fall-chiefly those in the Fay House, and in the increase of courses in the departments-but there remain certain other points in Mr. Gilman report which are worth mention. In the first place it is to be noted that student game this year from one hundred and thirteen institutions as against seventy seven last last year; a fact which shows how strongly the advantages of the Annex are appealing to graduates...
...providing the University with a suitable Museum of Fine Arts. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the writer of the article. However admirable is the spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased to the proper proportions, seems a needlessly long time and there ought to be some quicker and equally advantageous way of bringing about the same results...
...these we may see certain characteristics of the scorner. First, he is inactive, he points out evil without moving to remedy it; second, he always looks down, he is by nature an unfavorable critic and pessimist. The man with these characteristics will find his place in the voting tomorrow or rather will fail to find his place and the indifference of his class will be the greatest danger. the Government will have to face; it. is the inactive lookers on who will keep the nation in trouble and perplexity...
...purposed to enlarge them still further. The Union is already reaching a number of laborers of every class, laborers who enter into the work with an earnest spirit and an interest which arises not a little from the fact that their instructors are Harvard students. There remain however, certain courses for which there is a call, and there must be students in the college who are able to instruct in them and whose services would be very beneficial. But outside of these subjects any man will be welcomed who can and will teach in any subject. We earnestly urge...
...matter of lighting the library, so much discussed and planned for last year, has again been brought to our attention by the fact that yesterday afternoon the doors of Gore Hall were closed at three o'clock, and certain members of the faculty as well as many students were shut out from the building. The only explanation given us of this is, that last year when it grew dark it was a habit among students to light a match in looking for books in the alcoves, and that this year, to prevent any accidents that might follow from this practice...