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...have called the contrivance known as English grammar absurd, and the study of it a useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their...
...small sign in the gallery at Memorial requesting visitors to remove their hats has been replaced by a larger and more conspicuous notice to the same effect, immediately at the top of the stairway...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your editorial of the 17th ult. on the inefficiency of the German department, has not, it seems, produced the desired effect. Not only has no head to the department been appointed, but the methods of one instructor in particular have established no attempts at improvement. The instructor in question, day after day, ignores completely the presence of half the men in his sections; in fact, to make the matter worse, often calling upon the more fortunate students twice or more times in the course of a recitation. This is common talk among the men of the freshman...
...University in regard to the petition for voluntary prayer. Signed by an overwhelming majority of the undergraduates, endorsed by many of the prominent alumni of the college, and strongly approved by the leading journals of the country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic...
...Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its cultivation unless the student of delicate physique right gallantly arrayed in bib and tucker, kicks just five pounds avoirdupois, and stands out of sight of the rest of the team...