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...continuance of the present cold snap. We trust that the college will chime in with our sentiments, since we are trying to ring in no scheme of personal advantage. Our columns are open to any communications on this topic bearing the magic signature "'89," though we reserve the option of proceeding to clapper stopper on any correspondents who give tongue too freely...
...closing, I will add the names of some of the bills which have been introduced and debated: Bill 3, on Nisaragua Canal; bill 4, Local Option; bill 5, Increase of U. S. A. Navy; bill 9, for repealing title A, U. S. Statutes; bill 10, to admit ex-Presidents to Senate...
...before the first annual, and the intervening days are devoted in most cases to hard study. Cramming, as this pre-examination study is almost universally called, takes a number of different forms. The lower classes, whose time has been almost entirely devoted to mathematics and the classics, have little option in the matter. To cram up successfully, the text of the works must be gone over in some form. In mathematics the propositions of geometry and the problems of algebra are reviewed with more or less care, according to the natural taste of the student for the subjects. Some...
...system of giving the freshmen the option of choosing for themselves what courses they desire to pursue has now been under trial for nearly a year, and it would be well to look at some of the effects produced...
...movement in Harvard College against compulsory attendance at morning prayers has again failed, the petition of the remonstrants having been rejected by the corporation. The petition asked simply that undergraduates over twenty-one years of age should be allowed to exercise their option in the matter, and that those under that age should be governed by the option of their parents. The decision is very curious when taken in connection with the yearly extension which is given to the elective system in the choice of studies. One would think that there was nothing in a young man's life...