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...important preliminary arrangements for its inauguration next fall have been made, and it only remains for certain minor details of preparation to be completed and for the director and students to sail for Greece, in order that the school may actually begin its proper work in the chosen field...
...scheme for a regular university commons, to be the most feasible of any yet suggested. It is that a contract be made between the corporation and some experienced and responsible person, by which the latter shall be allowed to conduct a students' dining hall in Memorial, furnishing (under certain restrictions) board to those members of the university who desire it. Under this plan satisfactory board at varying rates, adjusted to the requirements of all classes, could and would undoubtedly be furnished, provided due care were exercised in selecting the contractor, and the requisite guarantees and pledges were exacted...
...preparing a discus for the use of the spring meeting, Professor White intends to secure the measurements and a pattern of the discus in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and, perhaps, of certain ones in the British Museum, and then have several manufactured from these patterns for our use. This will be done as soon as possible so that practice may commence at once. Professor White himself intends to appear on the field and take part in the practice. Although the sport would seem to be decidedly more graceful, and, as regards exercise at least, more satisfactory than putting...
Recent observations about the boat-house impresses one with the remarkable absence of any single sculls. The place fairly swarms at certain hours of the afternoon with the numerous candidates for the four class crews and the 'Varsity, but amid all these devotees to aquatic sports there appear no single scullers. When we remember Harvard's former glory in this respect, and the honors gained by her representatives abroad, as well as the well-contested victories in exciting local races, we feel that there exists at present a lamentable lack of interest in this kind of sport previously so popular...
...more recondite branches of learning, are sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively the elementary...