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...institution which possesses such opportunities for learning as does Oxford. All the lectures are given in the morning, and the afternoon and evening are free to the student. It is seen from this that the amount of time devoted absolutely to work is not very large, and as the length of each term is eight weeks and vacation, all told, amounts to six months, each year, a course at Oxford need not be a very severe "grind" to a man rather inclined to take things easy. There is one restriction, however, put upon the freedom of the students, which perhaps...
...this article leads to "The Decadence of the Harvard Spirit; A Conversation" by Hugh McCulloch. This article was fully discussed in an editorial published in the CRIMSON a day or two ago, and we have only here to say that it presents well and clearly, though at somewhat tedious length, a great though inevitable danger into which we have come through the tremendous growth of the University in late years, that danger being that as our numbers increase we gradually lose that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad...
...BOAT for sale; length 20 ft. fast, good cabin accommodations and thoroughly well found in every respect. Address B. CRIMSON Office...
...June contains a very interesting though short article on "The Future of Local Libraries," by Justin Winsor, the librarian of Harvard Library. Mr. Winsor's article is suggested by the recent action of the Massachusetts Legislature providing for the maintenance of small local libraries. He speaks at some length of the system adopted in France by the Societe Franklin and though their methods would probably not work satisfactorily if universally adopted here, there are many points in which we would do well to imitate them. It would certainly be a great improvement if all the small libraries here were managed...
...officially announced that Oxford won from Cambridge by only one length and four feet, and not by two lengths and half...