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...shows that the principal professors have from 8 to 13 hours a week of recitations or lectures. This does not look very large, but it must be remembered that much additional work is entailed in the preparation of work, that the marking system and the examination system as at present used require much extra labor, and that if the instructor has a taste for "one-hours" he may have five or six hundred blue books to examine every year. Some have more than this...
...these letters is not great. They were not intended for publication. The writer evidently hoped they would never see any other light than that of the library of the friend to whom they were addressed. Still I hope that their value will not be lessened from this fact. They present things familiar to us from the point of view of a foreign but impartial observer. However, I will let the letters speak for themselves...
...Senior Nine, not to be behind, held a large and enthusiastic meeting in Holden, all the associate members being present. A dark crimson ribbon was proposed and received with applause. The Nine at this point rose to his feet, and moved that the ribbon should be debarred from the associate members, but he was at once overruled and the ribbon adopted by a unanimous vote...
...Freshman Class at first decided on wearing crimson waistcoats; green ribbons were also proposed by a Sophomore, who happened to be present, but they finally decided to wear no ribbon at all, on the ground that there was something about a Harvard man which rendered him easily distinguishable at all times and in all places without a special badge...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The season at the Museum closes on May 29, with the present engagement of Annie Pixley in "M'liss, the Child of the Sierras," - the story of a rather wild Western girl. Miss Pixley introduces several songs with good effect...