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Together with the report to the Board of Overseers, a summary of which appears in another column, was submitted the suggestion, "that the Board of Overseers request the President and Fellows to reconsider their vote of November 7, 1894, in relation to the lands and buildings of the College, and appoint a committee to confer on the subject with a committee from the Board of Overseers." This was approved by the Board, but the Corporation, while appointing such a committee, as in 1894, considered a complete scheme for the future development of the College property, impracticable...
...Weekly of Feb.26. It is one of a number of contributions by John Corbin '91, on the general subject of "A Harvard Man at Oxford," the special subject being "Slacking on the Isis and the Char." It is an interesting sketch and gives promise of opening an interesting column...
...editorial in the current number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
...same column is a comment on undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...