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...must make provision for the education of such men. What they want is instruction in science, and to be taught how to make the most of the numerous applications of science to industrial pursuits. 'If the colleges are to educate these men, liberty must be given for a much larger amount of attention to science than to literature, and for selections among the sciences themselves.' The university aims to meet the emergencies of the present time. Hence the excellent facilities furnished by its well-appointed chemical and physical laboratories - facilities which will be greatly increased when there shall have been...
...course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude way the things which they either know already or have written in their note books. Much valuable time seems to be unnecessarily lost, especially in the larger courses. There, each individual person ought to have a correspondingly shorter time, but that is a thing that but few instructors can guage. The object of the instructors is to tell men what they cannot find out elsewhere, except, perhaps, without a great waste of energy. Everyone who has taken careful and full notes...
...often the complaints were of a valid character and as such required due consideration. Formerly it took many such complaints to remedy cases of this kind, but we observe with pleasure, as an instance of the better attention student wants are meeting this year, that one of the larger and most popular courses has just been removed by the professor to a better ventilated room, without any urging on the part of the class...
...sides is heard a call for larger accommodations. Harvard needs at least three dormitories, an annex to Memorial Hall, and money for countless objects. We cannot expect that all of these wants can be satisfied in one day, but there is one deficiency which ought to be supplied at once. N. H. 5 has been declared open to only a majority of those who wish to take it, for the simple reason that there is not a sufficient number of microscopes to supply the demand. It is a great disappointment, to all of the unsuccessful applicants, and it would appear...
...those who elected the summer courses in chemistry, either for the purpose of doing up their work for the coming year, or because they desired to offer the work thus performed as a substitute for the chemistry courses required in the Medical School. Of these summer students, however, the larger number were students from other colleges, or persons not other-wise connected with the university. This, year, however, a large number of the regular undergraduates of the college will remain in residence. Of these the greater part will study chemistry, but many will devote their time to Political Economy...