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...closing of the H. U. B. C. Boat-House to all undergraduates, except members of the Club, has been carried out, as was proposed some time ago, and of which notice was given in the College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member...
...mind back several centuries to devote himself to the consideration of mediaeval institutions. It is certainly possible that this unsteadiness in matters of study may have something to do with our apparent fickleness in other things; but whether this be the cause, or the reason is to be found in the universal weakness of man, the fickleness remains. Rifle-shooting, but a few months ago all the rage, gives way now to a mania for knickerbockers; these in their turn will fall an easy prey to the first rival for the popular favor. There is yet hope that the interest...
...could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money to found colleges discover that their money would do more good by increasing the usefulness of institutions already established, than by adding another name to the list of mushroom colleges with which the country abounds...
SOME books have disappeared from the Yale Library, and the Library Committee have published a card in the Courant, threatening to make public the name of any person who shall be found guilty of taking a book from the Library. In reference to the new Chapel at New Haven, the Courant prints the following pithy editorial...
...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...