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...room ; and yet from the blissful unconsciousness with which these musical attempts are continued, it really appears to be necessary to call attention to it. Music, between the regulation hours of three and nine, doubtless "hath charms to soothe the savage breast," but we are forced to say that either before or after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from...
...important that every man who has had experience at either kind of shooting, should come forward in the matches, so that the match committee may know what material is at hand from which to pick teams...
...committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address, it will be remembered gave very strong indications of some probable move in this direction by the Board at no distant day. Whether as yet any decisive showing of strength by either the more conservative or the more decal side has yet been made we are uninformed. That the question will soon be considered is tolerably evident. What will be the final issue it would be hazardous to predict...
...professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton, Professor Child, and Professor White, besides many others have particularly expressed the most positive opinions on the subject. And as yet so far as we know no more has been done either towards reform or towards an abolition of the system. It is indeed an exceedingly humiliating thought that the combined wisdom and experience of the Harvard faculty cannot or does not devise some substitute or reform for the present evil methods...
...just scale, which shall without unfairness indicate the exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks in any one course may not be out of proportion to the standard of marking employed in other courses for the instructor in that course, either to employ an artificial scale and to assign a general mark much higher than could strictly be given to it were it marked in detail, or else to apply some system of equalization, such as raising all the marks in his course by a certain fraction of the mark assigned...