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Graduation in our sense of the word does not exist. After a man has heard lectures for a minimum of three years, he is allowed to apply for permission to "make an examination." It is seldom that any one tries the ordeal in a shorter time, six semesters being the ordinary university course. A friend of the writer, an American, however, went up for examination at the end of his third semester in Berlin, in Physics, and what is more, he passed the examination and received his degree of Ph. D. This case may be taken as showing what...
...must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this is reduced to a minimum. The advice of an experienced friend is valuable, but a fixed purpose and the wisdom to avoid outside allurements is of still greater advantage. In applying for admittance it is by no means necessary to show an American degree, for no attention is paid to it, but the man who would...
...having class dinners is certainly an excellent one, and should be encouraged as much as possible, as by it is fostered a certain class-feeling which forms such an important factor in college life elsewhere. True it is, that here at Harvard this class-feeling is at a minimum, partly because of the size of the classes, and partly because of the so-called Harvard indifference, but anything that will tend to increase this feeling and bind the members of a class more closely together, ought to receive a hearty support. Judging from the success which attended the '85 sophomore...
...tenth theme in English 5 will be due a week from next Friday. Subject: The restrictions on athletics by the faculty, and the advisability of the minimum requisition in Greek...
...Freshman minimum sections in Mathematics will take for Monday's lesson the first four pages of Wheeler's "Logarithms," working out the examples...