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...elected by such a large number of students. It is another answer to one of the strongest objections urged by the opponents of the elective system, who contend that when a student is allowed his choice of studies the tendency will be towards electing those subjects that are less difficult. But the fact that in every class a majority of the men take Political Economy some time during their college course, shows that college students are well aware of the importance of the subject. In this connection a letter in the current Nation on "Political Economy in German Universities...
...examination in Freshman Analytics yesterday has been declared by a former instructor in mathematics to be the hardest paper ever given in Harvard College. It is to be hoped that the faculty will be convinced by this and by last year's paper that analytics is a subject sufficiently difficult to be removed from the freshman year, and placed among the electives...
...song, as there will be plenty of opportunities between now and Friday for learning. It takes but a short time and but little trouble to step into Boylston one or two evenings during the week and getting a fair acquaintance with the song, whose air is not at all difficult to catch. We hope that the members of '82 will take enough interest in their class day exercises to make the singing of the class song a perfect success, which under the altered circumstances, is less difficult to accomplish than ever before...
...lanterns are taken by the students as keepsakes of the day. While we may appreciate to a slight degree such a feeling, we deprecate the fact that the practice has become so universal and annoying that each year the class day committee find it more and more difficult to make contracts with dealers to supply lanterns. The lanterns are rented to the class and not sold, and when a man takes one of these lanterns he must recollect that he is doing great injustice to the senior class and to the college, and that he is making more and more...
...permanent addresses, a large number remain unreturned to me. It will be impossible for me to keep a good record or to furnish you information about one another during future years unless you promptly send me your addresses. Delay or negligence in this will only make my work more difficult and its results less satisfactory, and I trust therefore that in regard both to this and to class lives you will assist me in getting this information, which it is my duty to obtain, while it is only through your kindness that I can obtain...