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...opposition to the principles of voluntary recitation; for surely, if a student is qualified to decide whether he will attend recitations, he is also qualified to decide whether he can profitably elect courses which occasionally conflict. No matter how great the care taken in arranging the Tabular View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what...
...rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building, to make fires, black boots, bring water, etc. It is hoped in this way to secure better care of the rooms, and to prevent the damage which is often done to the walls and floors by careless scouts...
There comes an unsuspecting classmate. The spider is upon him. I know just what he will say. I have heard it often, and it has become amusing to me. Let us draw nearer...
...third objection is that Commencement Parts could not be assigned; and this seems insurmountable. But what if Commencement Parts were not assigned? Would much be lost? Under the present method those who are most capable of offering interesting parts often fail to attain them through their devotion to difficult courses. But if exercises at Commencement must be had, would not treatises in different branches by students who have won distinction therein be more interesting than the present exercises? Indeed, they could not well be less...
Many opinions are expressed about this lack of success, and a quite prevalent one is that the Glee Club in its attempt to sing some of the more difficult glees is rather too ambitious. The individual talent of the Club is not more than fair; the united efforts often seem strained and affected. To sing the songs of the Apollo or Boylston Club is indeed a laudable ambition, but to expect in so doing to meet entire success is presumptuous...