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First.-Instead of valuing the various electives according to the number of hours of instruction per week, make the values proportional to the amount of work necessary on the part of the student. It would be difficult to determine this value for each elective exactly, but it would probably be very closely represented by the ratio between the average marks of the students of an elective for their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. The former would be the nearest representation of the ability and industry of the members of the elective; the latter the result...
...this statement may be slightly exaggerated it has "much of method" in it for the strength of a team lies in its "battery" and its ability to hit good pitching. This ability can never be learned from an amateur no matter how faithfully the nine may practice. It is difficult to see why there should be any objection to a trainer who could coach the nine in batting and give them the advantages of good pitching. Gymnasiums have their directors and "crews" their coaches; why not the nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact...
...have received a communication from an "anxious friend," begging us to inform him through our columns, "by what means students are awakened in case of fire occurring at night in the dormitories of the college?" This is a rather difficult question to answer. We can assure our anxious friend, however, that the college has, in its own opinion, sufficiently provided for the safety of its students under these circumstances by a liberal distribution of staples throughout the college buildings. We believe the authorities have not as yet, however, undertaken the difficult task of awakening every student in case of fire...
...Spirit of the Times, that it would be utter folly for Harvard to be in readiness to pull against any "inferior or country college" that wishes to issue a challenge, and how that can be construed into "putting on airs" "frequently, persistently, and with malice aforethought," it is difficult to see. However, the Spirit of the Times sees it, and in its scorn proposes like the "sensible paper" that it is, to punish us by "those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard," or in other words, will give us a "severe letting alone." Harvard College must...
...cannot some of our leading instructors in Political Economy and History be persuaded to give a course in some of the leading points of the great practical questions? It would be no more difficult for the college to arrange such a course than to arrange the classical readings in Sever 11. Should they not see fit to undertake such a project, then one of the numerous special societies, Historical Society, Finance Club, and others, of which we hear so little in public, might bring their forces together and persuade the professors to lecture under their auspices. It is certainly worth...