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...have received a communication which we are unable to print because of its length, urging that Dane Hall be redeemed from its present uses and altered to suit the needs of a university club. The writer considers the formation of such a club extremely desirable, both because many students are necessarily debarred from admittance to the more important secret societies, and because many of those who are fortunate enough to become members of them are obliged to go to heavy expense in the way of fees and assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means...
...exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained of a desire upon the part of many writers to assimilate rather than to invent and on the part of more, rather to arrange the work of others than to assimilate it. As the next forensic is to be of some length, all are advised to select a subject which will not "give out" before the forensic does. Especial care should be taken in the formation of sentences. The advice is admirable, we trust that the work will show that it has been heeded...
During the past four years our college papers have been going through rather an interesting process of evolution. As many have not been here for the length of time mentioned, and as many others may not have noted the changes, it may be worth while to look back upon what has happened...
...rigid muscles. The total resistance to the action of the heart is thereby considerably increased. From carefully compiled statistics of the English University crews, not only are the men not injured, but actually improved in health, if we may judge from the fact that their years are increased. But length of days is not everything. Ruined health from a diseased heart may make a man sigh for death. Here, again, the figures are most favorable, for a smaller percentage of these men died from heart disease than is found among average...
...oftener than twice a year; but this seems unadvisable at Harvard, because the men in the two lower classes at any rate have not sufficient command over the English language, nor training in the use thereof, to enable them to produce a finished piece of work of the requisite length. Besides, if each theses were required only twice a year, there would be altogether too much of what is now the customary thing, namely, everything being left to the last minute, and then studied up in a few days; which is, of course, contrary to all principles of honest work...