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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD. I wish to add one more complaint to the numerous ones which have been directed against the examinations. The examination in Political Economy 2 was fair in every respect except one. There was one question asked in which the writers of the thesis on that particular question (a thesis is written during the year on topics given out by the instructor) certainly had a decided advantage over the other members of the class. These last few unfortunates were supposed to glean as much knowledge from the reading of parts of the various theses, as days of research...
There will be no examinations today except in the Law School...
...been the effect of the measures adopted by the Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility...
...University of Paris was the first to introduce the system of colleges. The main object in the universities being lectures, there was no need of any buildings, except for lecture rooms. There was no library, as printing had not yet been invented. The system of colleges, on the other hand, was entirely different. It demanded the closest intimacy between professor and student, both of whom lived in the same house for reasons of economy. It could but react to the benefit of the students, while the lecture system gave no chance for any intimacy which might arise between student...
...conferring it, but it was getting to be a necessity, and it is not probable that there would ever come a better time than the present to make this stand. The position of the overseers, we can imagine, is that the whole system of honorary degrees, except in exceptionable cases, is based on rather questionable grounds, and particularly is it so in the case of conferring them upon any one who may happen to hold a high office. It is claimed that this is done in honor to the people who are represented by the office, but just...