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Gentlemen, - Pray accept my best thanks for the package of Vanity Fair Tobacco which I found here yesterday. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will be a great source of enjoyment to me on my Western trip...
...time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility in the use of Mathematics. Men cannot be expected to elect a subject which is sure to bring them so much hard, dry work and such unsatisfactory results...
...several of my acquaintance, and no doubt by many others. Since the Library has received so large an addition, I am sorry that I cannot call it also an improvement. There is no reason why a reading-room of sufficient size should not be provided. Whatever beauty the building ever possessed has been sacrificed to making it larger, but apparently it is not yet large enough. Though I do not wish to find any unnecessary fault, I cannot pass by in silence two discomforts with which all who use the Library must be acquainted: the ventilation is often very...
...train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours, and will do every day what they know they must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that ever trained a month for our Athletic Field Sports? It has been often said that there is no necessity of training much, because no one does it; but this is now an excuse of the past. For it was decided, at the last meeting of the Athletic Association, that prizes...
...properties of buildings. They say that in the present state of the building art these things are a mere matter of chance. This being the case, we cannot find fault with the constructors of our recitation-rooms, particularly as they were most of them built long before ventilation was ever heard of. What I do want to suggest is that the College can, at a small expense, relieve those who suffer from draughts and those who suffer from close air, by introducing an invention which was used in some of the schools of Boston a few years...