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...report the president states that the growth of the Lawrence Scientific School has been something very remarkable and this statement is fully upheld by the statistics of Professor Chaplin's report. In 1885-86 there were but 14 students in the school, while at the opening of the current year there were 118 men enrolled. There are several reasons given by the president for this growth - the energy and good judgment of the Dean, the more complete union of the Scientific School with the college, the establishment of closer connections between the School and the public high schools...
...most important event at the library during the current year has been the completion of the index to the subject catalogue. The catalogue itself has been greatly benefited by this and several important changes have been made in it. The Library is sadly in need of a new building. At the end of two years the librarian has announced that the entire shelf room in Gore Hall will be filled. It is proposed to build a new reading room retaining the present building as a book-stack. Such alterations would cost $150,-000 at the least. There are now twenty...
...editorial in the current number of the Advocate calling attention to the need of conversational German courses is timely. It is strange that there should be any necessity for such an editorial. The need ought to have been recognized long ago by the German department and provided for. It is hard to understand how the German department of a great university can assume to teach the language without such courses. It is conversational courses which give practical value to instruction in the modern languages. The only way for the student to get into the real spirit of a modern language...
GENTLEMEN: - At a meeting held in Cambridge on the 12th of the current month by the members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences, Law and Divinity who presented a memorial to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on the 25th of May, 1891, urging the suppression of the Dudleian Lecture against Catholicism, it was voted to communicate to the President and Fellows the following statement...
...from the classes of 1825, 1829, and from every class from 1831 to the present time. The association offers an annual prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay upon any one of a list of subjects chosen by a committee of the association. The subjects for the current year...