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...they, with as few exceptions, thoroughly regret this neglect. Especially is this true of contributing to the college papers. Leaving out of consideration the benefit to those who later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble to bring out their powers, and so never find they have them. And to any man it is of the greatest importance to be able...
...reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic of custom nearly extinct at all other colleges, the following account is of interest...
...discussion of the matter of the abolition of the prescribed study of Greek in the colleges, at present a question of such living interest to Harvard, is continued by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in a third edition of his recent Phi Beta Kappa address, containing an appendix with much new matter and further testimony on the subject. Mr. Adams considers the recent argument derived from the testimony and experience of Berlin University in the matter, and calls particular attention to the agitation of the Greek question in England, particularly at the universities, where he thinks that the tendency of opinion...
...News comments thus on the suggestion of the Boston Herald that an advisory committee of graduates be appointed to look after our nine: "We doubt very much if the surrender of the control of this branch of athletics to alumni will prove the best means for ensuring the undergraduate interest in base-ball, the lack of which at Harvard seems to us to be the real cause of her position in the league. If, when the full control of the base-ball interests are in the hands of the undergraduates, they fail to give the nine that enthusiastic support which...
Where is the usual course of lectures in hygiene? Among the voluntary courses this has always been a favorite and the number of men present have always expressed much interest in the lectures. This is an important subject for men to be informed upon, and one too often neglected by hard working students. To know how we are made and what we should do to keep ourselves in good health should be the object of everyone. It is for this purpose that these lectures were given and they were made voluntary so that every man could have this chance...