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...limited space, and hard seats, is no place for such lectures as Judge Holmes and Dr. Brooks have given. If none but Cambridge people, for whom the lectures are not especially intended, were turned away, Sever might do very well. But as long as students of the university have either to stand, - if they can find room, - or to go away disappointed, Sever is signally deficient. The interests of the students and the highest value of the lectures demand that hereafter Sanders be opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1886 | See Source »

...come to know the Lampoon in its successful career. The paper that is known in and out of Cambridge as the best college paper of its kind is certainly an honor to Harvard, and should have the support of all Harvard men who are able to contribute to it either from their pockets or from their brains. We hope that our sister paper will have no reason to complain of lack of support from the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1886 | See Source »

...quite possibly in some courses it would be well to offer an alternative. We might be allowed either to answer a given set of questions, or to write on some topic covering a large part of the work. Such a plan as Professor Palmer's is, we hope, the small end of the wedge which may split to pieces our present examination and marking system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1886 | See Source »

Vital capacity is the volume of air which a man can expel from his lungs after making the deepest inspiration of which he is capable. The vital capacity of a men 5 feet 8 inches tall is 230 cubic inches, a variation of 16 per cent. either way is the limit of health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health and Strength. IX. | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

...knowledge of the "Ebb and Decline of Bicycling at Harvard" is not confined to the college alone. When a sport, so prominent in English universities and on the increase there and in this country, has come to such a point as this, it is time that something was done; either it must be dropped altogether, or elevated to the position where it belongs. It is a deplorable fact that, among the candidates for the Mott Haven team, there is not one man trying for the bicycle race. Last year there was but one representative in the race at Mott Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1886 | See Source »