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Prof. G. H. Palmer is the American member of a committee formed in Great Britain to prevent the running of a railroad through the Berrowdale, one of the historic places of England. At the head of the committee are Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin...
...hope the managers of the Athletic Association will show their considerate regard for the comfort of all who attend the meeting today, by endeavoring to prevent a repetition of the rush that was so disagreeable at the entrance last Saturday...
...writer in the Portland Transcript, commenting on the subject of elective studies in colleges, which as he declares is "one of the live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that he is incapable of pursuing successfully, and he should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to suggest through your columns that the managers of the Athletic Association take some action to prevent crowding at the opening of the doors at the next meeting. Half an hour is not time enough for nearly two thousand persons to pass through a small gate and seat themselves in the hall. If at the next meeting there are as many present as there were at the last - probably there will be more - it will be very inconvenient, if not almost impossible, for a gentleman with ladies to get into the hall unless some change...
Madagascar asks England and Germany to prevent the bombardment of Tamatave by the French...