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...which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks of those whom the university and its students have been accustomed to depend on and look up to respectively as the educational forces of Cambridge...
...absence of a course of instruction in the History of Political Theories forms a serious gap in the curriculum at Harvard. As has been shown by the article in these columns describing the several schools of Political Science, there is exactly such a course at Michigan University, at Columbia, and at Johns Hopkins. If one has time to read at length in the original Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only...
...gap in this sort of work at Harvard has been somewhat filled in recent years by the efforts of some of the college societies; but these efforts have been limited necessarily. To secure any lecture, even those given as a matter of courtesy, involves considerable expense upon the society under whose auspices the lecture is given-an expense which often prevents lectures from being arranged which might not only be of practical value as a means of instruction, but might also be of intrinsic value in themselves, for the advancement of knowledge. Thus were it not for such considerations...
...season following the mid-year examinations was selected for this course because it is thought that such lectures will fill the gap until the spring opens, which is generally characterized by inactivity on the part of the students. Much credit is due the finance men for their efforts, which, judging from their single lecture of last year, will be fully appreciated by the college at large...
...chances where so many events are to be contested for, and such a variety of mishaps are to be guarded against. Moreover with the graduation of '83, a large number of last year's team left college. Soren, Kip, and Morrison, all winners last year, have left a great gap to be filled by new men. Yale has a champion bicycle rider and a fast sprint runner who will win two or three events for her. She will make every effort to increase her number of first prizes, and it behooves our men to do everything possible to keep...