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...Should the endeavor, unhappily, be a failure, all money paid into the Harvard fund will be returned and all subscriptions cancelled. Due notice of success or failure will be given by the committee. In any event, Harvard men will have the satisfaction of knowing that in this instance, as often before, they have contributed their example and their money to further a most worthy undertaking...
...long and at what hours he is to be in the laboratory. Where courses change so from year to year as they have in Physics and some Natural History subjects, it is useless to take the statement of those who have formerly taken the courses, and the pamphlet is often misleading. For instance, the announcement that N. H. 5 is given three times a week at 2 o'clock does not convey the idea that the course requires three lectures and six hours of laboratory work; nor does the description of Physics 3-lectures and laboratory work three times...
...first the aim of the Annex was to give to young women intending to become teachers the best possible preparation. But after a while many came who wished to study without any practical object. The special students, although they are not compelled to take the examinations, often do so,-working with motives sufficiently earnest to keep up the standard. At first little more than an experiment, the Annex has grown to be one of the best known educational institutions in the country. The number of its students has increased from 25 to 250; it has sent teachers all over...
...winter of 1887-88, there was hardly an article of food at the Hall which did not cause complaint. The bread was half the time sour, and the water foul; the oatmeal and the vegetables were often so cooked as to be uneatable; the fish, poultry, chops, coffee, were positively bad. Very little order was kept during meals. The bill of fare was chosen by regular routine, so that you could predict every meal beforehand. And with all this, the price of board averaged $4.23 a week during the first two terms. This was the condition into which inefficient management...
...practice remains, which, if possible, is still more annoying than the one just mentioned. We mean the practice, unfortunately not confined to Ninetythree, of leaving the lecture room during the hour. The disturbance occasioned by only one man's leaving the room while the lecturer is speaking often breaks the thread of the lecturer's thought, and so wastes time for him and the whole class. When several men leave one after the other the loss of time is very appreciable. But the loss of time is not so great an evil as the ungentlemanly character of the proceeding...