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...chime master is chosen by competition. A member of the Freshman class has, by less than a year's practice, become as proficient in playing the chimes as is the present incumbent of the office...
...HAVE lately seen a good deal of discussion in outside quarters as to what we are doing here at Harvard, and it has set me to thinking upon what strikes me as being a very serious error in our present system. It has become generally admitted in Europe, that one gains more from his University course if he spends his time on one department of study, than by "spreading" himself over a variety of subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain...
...understand that the Faculty have decided to make no change this spring in the present arrangement of chapel and recitation hours. On what grounds this decision is based I do not know, but I think it can be taken for granted that their action was influenced by the supposed desire of the students not to have the change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring...
...among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place...
SOMETIMES it is rather amusing to see one's self through the eyes of another. In the present instance the observer stands on the intellectual heights of the Kansas University, and condescendingly remarks...