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...Elective Pamphlet will soon be issued, we desire to call attention to a somewhat remarkable deficiency. On looking through the pages of this well-known periodical, we find a great number of courses in languages and various departments of science, but none in that most fascinating and grandest of all sciences, Astronomy. A man may get a little Astronomy in Phys. I, and something of the mathematics of the subject in Math. I, but this is very unsatisfactory, - as if we could learn Geology only by supplementing Chem. 2 with a course of applied excavation at the Bussey Institution. These...
...Harvard, notwithstanding the great advantages which the large number of students and our system of study give in pursuing outside work, we undoubtedly fall below that standard of excellence in our athletic and social affairs that would naturally be expected of us. This failing, in both branches, is due in great measure to that system which throws upon a few prominent men the management of the many different interests. But more important than that even, in the case of some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History...
...apply, he must either lose one day of the brief recess or wait until his return. It would seem that if the room-lists are to be ready to-morrow, a little additional exertion could have brought them out to-day, to the convenience of a large number of men. The mistake is doubtless due entirely to an oversight, but we think that a little more thought might have been bestowed on the matter, and a real though trivial annoyance spared to the students...
...Class Sports this year, in addition to her regular meeting. The Seniors and Juniors will have their class games together, and the Sophomores will contend with the Freshmen. '84 in Columbia is a remarkable athletic class, Jenkins, Value, and Davison, the sprinters, and Clark, the bicyclist, being of their number...
...writer bases his estimate on the number of men taking scholarships in College, assuming, of course, that a student that applies for a scholarship cannot afford to pay $2.00 for a ticket to a play. About one-seventh of each class take scholarships, but about only one-half of the applicants are successful...