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...except a few of the most faithful, are apt to neglect the daily work, and simply to cram their knowledge just before the examinations. As to the second method, it is certain that the preparation and delivery of a lecture by a student does him great good; but whether his hearers get as much advantage from this as they would if the same ground were gone over by the instructor, is not so certain, and of course the benefit of the whole class is what is aimed at. The inexperience of the men in writing a lecture, and their seeming...
...certain restrictions? If, for example, a rule were made that no student's lectures should last longer than ten or twenty minutes, or if the instructor were to set a time for each lecture, according to the importance of the subject given, the student himself would gain fully as great a benefit as he does now, and his auditors, in most cases at least, a much greater. If, in connection with this, the instructor would give lectures now and then on matters that seem to him of special importance or of special difficulty, and if he would at the same...
Decidedly we hope before long to see a bicycling club formed at Harvard. Almost all our athletic sports have in some form or other availed themselves of the advantages attached to the club system, and to it is due, to no inconsiderable extent, the great increase of athletics of every description...
...seems to be highly fashionable at present to criticise the management of our excellent Library. Why this should be so just when such great changes and improvements are making, whereas no one used to complain of the time honored inconveniences under the last regime, we cannot imagine: we hope it is because there is greater interest in the question; but even this reason cannot excuse such a superfluity of ingenious fault-finding. Doubtless its defects have been more evident this year to the mass of students, because they have used it so much more; but anybody who knows other libraries...
Many of us are familiar with attempts in private conversation to justify reluctance to express disapprobation at indecencies however great, but such attempts in print are rare. That there should be at college a live and healthy public opinion cannot be doubted, at least until those who defend non-expression of disapproval show good reasons for so doing...