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...been occasioned by the acts of certain persons in abstracting or concealing reserved and reference books. The Library authorities having taken steps to discover such transgressors, a member of the Senior class was caught, and he has been subjected to due penalty by decree of the Faculty. The general body of students, who have been the chief sufferers in this way, may be congratulated on the prospect of a close of such proceedings...
...Committee is attempting to limit the tickets as far as possible to the Senior class. This is done according to the urgent advice of previous committees. Class Day seems in danger of losing its exclusive and private character, and threatens to become a general holiday. People living near the College make it a day for entertaining their friends. An exceptional case has been brought to the attention of the Committee, where a member of a lower class refused to give up his room for Class Day on the ground that he himself would entertain on that day. Tickets have sometimes...
...face of present circumstances, I believe the plan about to be proposed would insure more general satisfaction. Instead of allowing fifteen minutes, which, in reality, are not more than ten, to one student, the instruction should be given to sections, say of six, during an hour. By this means several advantages would be gained. All the students, I mean the Junior and the Senior classes, would have an opportunity to receive a proportional share of the instruction from the beginning of the year. There is always more or less delay in arranging one's electives, and the first who apply...
...would be an improvement, as instruction to a section of six for an hour is the same as reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political economy. A lecture on the general principles, though perhaps interesting, would not be of much use. Instruction in elocution resembles more nearly a lesson in singing or music; instruction by sections is almost useless compared with individual instruction. What we need is not a reduction in the time allowed to each man, but an increase...
...demanded my attention. And this is what he said: "In the name of the Faculty of Ha-v-erfo(rd) College, I award highest honors to you as a reward for excellence in the special subjects covered by your examinations. And, further, as a reward for the originality and general culture displayed throughout your papers, the degree of D. D., after mature deliberation, is conferred upon you; and as an additional proof of our esteem you will henceforth be allowed to send in petitions on the ground of Catarrh, without a doctor's certificate...