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...been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under the unusual expense of two races, each requiring different boats and arrangements. The boat-builder's bills alone were nearly $2,000. Since then many changes have been made, greatly to the interest of the club, noticeable among them being the transfer of the boat-house property. At this time the management takes perhaps a justifiable pride in presenting the following statement, showing the club...
...question as to the desirability of earlier prayers is one of so much interest to all of us that I venture to bring it up again...
...course can give, - he may have ever so much book learning and yet be but a sorry politician. Yet if more Harvard students should read the daily newspaper carefully, intelligently, and with a view to becoming acquainted with the events and the leading men of to-day, an increased interest in public affairs would result; and one means to retrieve the vital mistake, as President Eliot calls it, Harvard has made in not sending more men into politics would be found...
...wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably be lost. The plan suggested by our correspondent of having a class-book edited by the Secretary and not by the class at large would have worked much more satisfactorily. We speak, however, from...
...German literature is so large, even at the inconvenient hour of four in the afternoon, that the lecture-room is insufficient for the audience. If the evening readings could now and then be varied by lectures of a literary character, the authors read would be listened to with doubled interest. Most undergraduates are as profoundly ignorant of all that concerns the French, Italian, and Spanish literature as they are of German literature, and, having no acquaintance with the languages, are obliged to remain in ignorance of a great deal that is indispensable for every fairly well-informed man. That...