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...several years there has been great confusion regarding the official seal of the college. Anything containing the three books and the two familiar mottoes has been made to serve the purpose. At length, however, the matter has been settled, and Harvard now has one seal which will be used hereafter and which will receive the title of official. It is described as follows...
...COLUMBIA FRESHMAN RACE.At 11 a.m., June 25th, the Columbia and Harvard freshman crews were started over the two mile course at New London. Columbia got the better of the start, and increased the lead to half a length in the first fifty yards, rowing 38 strokes to Harvard's 40. This state of affairs was of but short duration, however, and before another hundred yards had been covered, the Harvard boat had been sent a length to the fore. The times at the half mile were, Harvard, 2m. 58s.,: Columbia, 3m. 9s. At the mile buoy both crews were bending...
...instructors seem unable to determine what should be a paper of fair length for a three-hour examination, as has been rather forcibly shown by some recent examinations. This is an old grievance, it is true, and one that has often been commented upon, yet its constant recurrence seems to call for even further notice. The only answer made to complaints on this subject is that the system of long examination is designed to bring to light the men who have failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when...
...paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked...
...list of those books which he deems it his duty to read subsequently when he shall possess more leisure. But if this is neglected, the student falls into the ever ready snare of summer reading. The inadequacy of college life for many of our higher intellectual needs has at length come to be recognized, and several of the instructors have directed their attention to courses of reading to be pursued by the students during the summer vacation. No instruction of the university, if judiciously used, could be pursued to greater advantage than such courses. There are many courses...