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...different thing to read before a set of critical judges and before an audience who perhaps are prepossessed in favor of the speaker. Many whom the cold eyes of the judges would disconcert would be roused to their best efforts by an audience of fellow students. Would not this method be more beneficial than the present...
...pleasant to see that the spirit of fierce rivalry that once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system...
...then chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan...
...service, brought about this year, and the greater interest and respect aroused thereby, have also caused the removal of all grounds for objection to the system on theoretical grounds that had been previously urged. We do not believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete, and most grateful to the college at large. But that these changes recommend the principle of compulsory attendance to the students a whit more, as worthy of support and continuance, is more than doubtful...
...purposes. The cost of running pipes to the other buildings would not be large. The work of sinking an artesian well can be done either by the job or by the foot. In the first case the sinker makes his estimate and bores until he finds water. The second method would probably be the most economical, as the cost is about two dollars a foot for a six-inch bore, which would supply all needs of the yard. The depth probably would not exceed fifty feet at the most, as there is a well near Church street which strikes water...