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...college powers are to blame for this state of affairs, but we, the students, are also to be censured because we do not take interest enough to demand electives in American history. It cannot be denied that every young American should have more than a school knowledge of his country's history. To disregard it shows a want of pride in our native land and a lack of appreciation of, our ancestors whose trials and labors made us what...
Although, in our opinion, the History department is one of the best organized in the university, the suggestion of our correspondent on this subject is one which deserves notice. There is undoubtedly a great demand for more courses on American history. It is strange that a college situated as is Harvard, in one of the oldest of the original colonies, should have no course in colonial history. This subject has occupied the attention of many of the best scholars of the country, and recent years have done much to add to our stock of knowledge. The course was conducted...
...position. Completeness in minor departments does not constitute a university in the broadest and truest sense of the word. Although the number of students who wish to study Sanskirt or Zend or Semitic languages may be limited, a university which aspires to lead must be ready to supply the demand however slight. There should be no necessity for students of these languages to go abroad to complete their study. There is a demand for an American university which can offer every advantage possessed by the universities of Germany in these departments. Harvard has tried to answer this demand. Not less...
...either through carelessness or wilful disregard, to pay proper attention to the expressed wishes of the board of directors in the matter of the regulation of the price of board and the general management of the hall. This is certainly not a trivial ground on which to base the demand for his removal. It is absolutely essential to the successful management of the hall by the students that the steward possess their entire confidence. Moreover, that the present condition of the hall seems more satisfactory than it was under the steward who preceded Mr. Balch, is no proof that...
...honors, simply because they are such, no matter whether they take the honor examinations or are awarded honors, shall be ret red from one twenty-first part of this year's work. Now the question is. "Have or have not the less favored non-honor men the right to demand that this rule shall be carried out according to the dictates of common sense and the spirit of this university?" It is currently reported that there are two marks in mathematical theses, one for the course mark, and one for the forensic mark, and it is openly said that...