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...unpopularity of Mathematics can be largely accounted for by the excessive difficulty which it presents under the present system of instruction. In the first place, the lectures are not made clear enough. The instructors pass on from point to point with such rapidity that it is often impossible to take intelligible notes. The student has little or no opportunity to ask questions, and is left to work out obscure points by 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...
...sight. I thought of the time, about a year ago, when, at its first unfurling, one of Harvard's dashing old oars predicted that it would be the harbinger of victory; and, in spite of my apathy, I could not help feeling proud that the prediction had come to pass. The bright folds were now stretched by the wind, and showed the dear old word to which, when we are out of Cambridge, we all so fondly cling...
TRANSLATIONS into verse, in order to pass muster, have to be very good indeed. A tolerable poem in a college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication...
...appreciate our admiration and gratitude, and feel rewarded by it, we have forgotten all this gladness. We don't care now about boating or ball. Now we look upon the men who will pull away all winter on those machines just to get on the crew, or pass ball all winter in the Gymnasium just to get on the nine, as a kind of disreputable lunatic. What we think about and care about now is, who is going to get into the clubs, or who will be in the next ten, or how we can obtain this room in Beck...
...last term's issues we expressed the opinion that the Class Day of our elder brothers was doomed to pass away. There are many in college, however, who are far from being satisfied with the modified Class Day celebrated by the Class of '77; and strong efforts will be made this year to go back to the old way of saying farewell to college life and college friends. Whether such a return is either possible or desirable, is as yet an unsettled question; and, with a view to enable the Class of '78 to act advisedly in the matter...