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...copies of the books in which reading is required are in the library to be reserved, and as the library is open only during the day, and can be consulted as a rule only between recitations, it is very difficult for students to find the time they need for this reading and the books to which they are referred. This difficulty becomes an impossibility when students have other courses requiring special reading...
...appearance of the new catalogue suggests once more the ever present and deserving subject which has been the basis of so many long and weary hours of college newspaper writing, - the need of more dormitories. The list of the freshman class shows an increased percentage of those who are compelled to room outside the college buildings. There is plenty of available ground within the limits of the yard, and there are many rich alumni of Harvard who are anxiously awaiting a chance to bestow large fortunes upon the university. Under such favorable circumstances it seems as if something might...
...essayist meets with no slander. If, then, more poems were written and required to be written, we claim that the poet would be treated differently, and his productions would be received with the favor they deserve. Why not have themes for poems as well as for essays? The writers need not soar into the skies and try to pluck out the very stars on their first attempt, when their wings are weak. They would not be expected to rival Pope or Coleridge, Bryant or Tennyson; but, by all means, give the student a chance to express himself in verse. Give...
...attention of all who have not yet signed to the library petition at Bartlett's. In justice to all who are unable to make use of the library during the afternoon, we hope that the petition will receive the signatures of every man in college. There is no need to review the abuses of the present system of the library, and no words of commendation can add force to the petition. But we trust that no efforts will be spared to make the list of names as long as possible...
...junior theme was a criticism. Last year the instructor of sophomore rhetoric in his lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis of the work criticised. When the themes were returned the following was written upon almost every theme, "Why tell the story; this...