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...Mondays, at 6.30 P. M., the regular drill nights. The Freshman companies drill four nights weekly, two nights under General Lister, and two under instructors who are candidates for positions in the corps. The election for officers will be held on the last Tuesday in November. The requisite number of names having been appended to the Constitution, application will at once be made for the exchange of one hundred muzzle-loading Springfield rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company...
...enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example, and if they would remember that their lectures are delivered to young learners and not to experienced critics, Mathematics at Harvard might become, as it ought to be, a means of pleasant and valuable instruction to a large number...
...number of the students who have this year elected any of the higher courses in mathematics is a discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible...
...himself. So, until an examination reveals the fact, the instructor never knows whether the student understands the subject or not. Again, too much attention is given to the theoretical and too little to the practical side of the subject. It takes so long to work up the great number of principles contained in the lectures, that no time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault...
...have on our table a large number of college magazines: the Virginia University Magazine, the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the Bates Student, the Yale Literary Magazine, the Nassau Literary Magazine, the Cornell Review, the Parker Quarterly, and the Lafayette College Journal. The Review is interesting, and well edited. The oration on "The Speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus in Shakespeare" is better suited for delivery; in reading it the style is too interjectional, and, if we may be allowed the expression, too jerky. The article on Wordsworth shows thought, and the reasoning is good, but unfortunately the writer, in quoting...