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Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
First thought may prophesy unpopularity for earlier classes, but college men are not the "molly-coddles" that popular action would have the world believe. An hour taken from the middle of a precious afternoon and placed before the "nine o'clock" would mean no hardship. On the contrary, such a change would put the academic and the athletic each in their proper spheres, and would make an arrangement of the college day much more logical and much more generally beneficial than that now existent...
...depends on the man. The University possesses no philosophers' stone nor does it profess to have mastered a formula for transmuting base into precious metal. It does the best it can with the material that comes...
...Lane, librarian of the College, in a letter of acknowledgement, pronounces the gift "one of the most precious bits of original manuscript which any American library could desire to own." When the new Widener Library is opened, the original draft of "America" will be made accessible to the view of visitors. The donors are Dr. D. A. W. Smith, E. W. Smith, Mrs. Caroline E. Morton and Mrs. John D. Candee...
...epidemic of smallpox, occupied Harvard Hall for its sessions in the middle of winter. The weather was cold, the open wood fires were piled high, and the fire broke out in the night. This disaster illustrates the rule that it is inexpedient to leave buildings whose contents are precious without human occupancy at night. This rule applies to industrial and commercial buildings as well as to educational, but is often disregarded in this country. Hollis Hall lost a part of its upper story and of its roof in 1876; and Stoughton Hall had the same experience some year...