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...much-asked question now is, what will be done with Dane Hall when the new law school building is completed. It has been proposed that it would be a good plan to organize a college club, with quarters in the old law hall, where the leading periodicals would be kept. A billiard hall could be opened, and coffee rooms would furnish pleasant places of commerce for the fellows. The plan seems rather impracticable to us, but it certainly would be a very delightful institution if it could possibly be successfully established...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: You have mentioned the project for a freshman class supper. Will you permit me to urge it? I know that it is out of all precedent, but is that a fatal objection? Is it really any objection? The reasons for the plan are these: The freshmen of '85 have, it is undoubtedly true, proved themselves dilatory in several respects. We have, to a certain extent, (though for fair reasons) been somewhat backward in contributing to sports. It is doubtful whether we will be a "high stand" class, either, or will produce many honor...
...difficult to see what objection the faculty can offer to the plan of holding examinations for conditioned men of other classes as well as of the freshmen in the fall. Many men who are so unfortunate as to receive conditions, would be very willing to devote a considerable portion of their summer vacation in preparing for it if the chance were only offered them; and it would certainly be much more preferable than the present plan, where men are prevented from properly preparing themselves by the pressure of other duties at the beginning of the year...
...when boys came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have any reason to complain of the effect upon scholarship...
Cornell has commenced to issue a quarterly library bulletin called the Library, somewhat after the plan of the Harvard Bulletin...