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What I would suggest is, that the assignments be made on a general list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
...doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word...
...President Eliot delivered before the Finance Club on Tuesday evening and which we published on our first page, is most gratifying reading for all Harvard students, for it shows in an authoritative way what all have believed in regard to the growth of Harvard in natural prosperity and in general popularity. What President Eliot said in regard to legacies and the way in which many are tied up and so become almost valueless, we take great pleasure in referring to the attention of prospective benefactors of our university. We cannot see what advantage there is in affixing a great mass...
...amount of money disbursed by the college in the payment of salaries and the general expenses immediately connected with the students, was about $200,000 during the year 1884-85, while the amount received from term-bills was only a little over $185,000. Formerly mortgages were an excellent form of investment for the university, but at present reliable mortgages yield scarcely 4 per cent. A considerable portion of the college funds in invested in railroad bonds. A small amount is invested in manufacturing stocks, but this is not so good a form of investment, as it yields a variable...
Aside from the restrictions laid down, the general advice is given to students "to make their choice with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from the first to last may form a rationally connected whole." This is excellent advice, but it is to be feared that not all students are in a state of mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students...