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...service Mr. Winsor has done the reading world in making up this Index, I need not speak. One has only to examine to be convinced of its value. Nearly all the books mentioned are either in the Bates Hall or Lower Hall of the Boston Library on Boylston Street, and many of them are presumably in Gore Hall. The pamphlet may be procured at the Boston Library by any one, resident or non-resident in Boston. Its price is, I believe, twenty-five cents...
...good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead of clubbing together and getting the lower rates which competing roads are always willing to grant to a large number. Many other colleges do this for their students, and, so long as our authorities have not taken the trouble, why should we not do so ourselves? The foot-ball and base-ball teams are able...
...cannot be made an easy study; but its difficulty might be vastly diminished and its attractiveness greatly increased if the faults in the present method of teaching were remedied. To the honor of one instructor, it should be said that a reform has been introduced in some of the lower courses, - noticeably, in the course in Differential Calculus. Over sixty men are taking this course, and are actually enthusiastic over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example, and if they would remember that their lectures are delivered to young learners...
...reasonable and moderate hour some of our entries are, at this season of the year, wellnigh as dark as they are at eleven; and yet the gas, especially on Saturday evenings, is often not turned on till seven or eight. The need of light is felt especially in the lower halls of Matthews and Holyoke, and a serious accident which occurred in the latter building one evening last week shows that our complaint is not an idle one. To have a front tooth knocked out by running against a projection in a dark hall is a mishap that we hope...
...Young man," said my chum, "if you speak the truth, your room is on the lower story. But I think that you came here on purpose...