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...short contribution on the requirements for the A.B. degree, by W. C. Byerly '71, sums up very accurately the causes of dissatisfaction which exist in regard to the standard of undergraduates' work as compared to the work demanded by the professional schools. The quantity and quality of the A.B. requirements are shown to be needlessly low and hence productive of indifference and idleness among the candidates for this degree that could not for a moment be tolerated in the more advanced departments of the University. Although the facts stated are undeniably true, it is plain that a literal adoption...
...retaliation is likely to result in loss to the country which undertakes it. The tariffs for fostering young industries have to be adjusted with extreme nicety, and are often too long continued. great care must be exercised in estimating the probability that the conditions supposed in these exceptions actually exist in any given case. Generally the argument is stronger for the retention of protection when it has become inveterate than for its introduction as now proposal in some quarters of the United Kingdom...
Professor Pickering of the University Astronomical Observatory and a number of assistants were busily engaged during the eclipse of the moon last night making observations and photographs of the various phenomens. The photographic work was directed toward the discovery of any satellites to the mirror which may possibly exist. It will probably be some days before the observers will be able to compute the measurements taken last night and assert their full significance...
...appealed to indirectly, as in our present business; the fourth and poorest, where the owner delegates his power to another. This is the system proposed, and therefore there is a great difference between the present attitude of the employes toward their customers and that which experience teaches will exist under the new plan...
...Directors now propose that this very successfully managed co-operative organization be discontinued, for the new form of organization is co-operative neither in form nor in effect. It is unfortunate that the co-operative principle should be discredited thus needlessly at Harvard where it may be supposed to exist under exceptional conditions in regard to intelligence on the part of its members, and heretofore exceptional disinterestness on the part of its officers...