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...roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would all be raised, that is, from the condition of eye-servants to the state of men who feel responsibility, and act accordingly. Until this is done we can never seriously claim that Harvard...
...rejoice equally with you in the discovery. But take each class, take each department, and try to point them out to me. No college in the country has conditions so favorable to the strong influence of an instructor's character, provided it exert itself at all, as Harvard. No longer can a professor make himself felt here by utterances ex cathedra; for, unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception...
...think that no longer we could pore...
...Association on Jarvis Field. A large number of ladies from town honored the athletes with their presence, and that portion of the seats which was reserved for them formed one of the most attractive features of the afternoon, and was a sight well worth the trouble of a much longer walk than that from the Yard to Jarvis Field...
...gained third place; at the half-mile Holmes took the lead, making it in 2.59, and this order was kept until the end, the three quarters being got over in 4.26, and Holmes came in first on the last quarter, winning the race in 5.35, being 32 1/2 seconds longer than at the fall meeting...