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...Columbia, it is asserted, is that at Columbia a class pursues but one subject at a time, having daily recitations thereon of one and an half or two hours each, while at Yale several subjects are simultaneously pursued with one or more exercises a week in each. The Harvard plan differs radically, each subject being studied by reported cases, and text books being little used...
...subjects thus far assigned for junior Themes have certainly possessed little interest or attractiveness in themselves. It may be part of the instructor's plan to train men in writing upon barren and uninviting subjects. We doubt if this is so, however. If not it would seem as if the list given out for so large a section could easily be extended. The field from which selections might be made is practically boundless. The list of subjects given out at other colleges as announced in the local college papers proves this fact. In default of other resources we should imagine...
...those who wish to subscribe for tickets at one dollar apiece, and before final arrangements are made with Mr. Arnold one hundred and twenty-five dollars must be raised to pay expenses. We think it would be a lasting shame to Harvard College and its students if this plan fell through. It would reflect so seriously and prove so completely our indifference when the opportunity is so unusual that we are almost ashamed to mention the possibility of failure...
...report comes that a female seminary, after the plan of Vassar, is to be erected at Los Angelos, Cal., at a cost...
...agree most heartily with the remarks of the Advocate on the introduction of the electric light into the library, but we are not inclined to believe that there is any probability of such a plan being carried out,-at least in the near future. That the lighting of the library would be a great benefit, goes without saying, for anyone who has had occasion to use the library knows it is none too well lighted even in broad daylight, while in winter or on stormy afternoons it is next to impossible to work there the usual length of time owing...