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...every year we come out more and more behind. It is also well-known that many of our professors are underpaid. The result is that from time to time there are rumors floating about of some younger instructors being offered better salaries at other institutions. Of course the natural pride an instructor feels in being connected with such a university as Harvard, and the hope of future promotion, may cause him to refuse a position at some other institution where he is to get a larger salary. But when a man who is getting $2500 a year here is offered...
...This is manifestly unfair to the other departments. In this department, the men who take the courses do not begin to pay the salary of the instructors. It seems as if the men are leaving the departments where they are most needed. Our Greek department has long been the pride of our university, and it is closely followed in popularity by the department in philosophy, which has, of course, less men this year than last, as the great number of men at that time was due to abnormal causes...
...agree with our contemporaries in their expressions of regret at the prospect of the possible departure of Professor Palmer from the university. The efficiency and popularity of the department of philosophy at Harvard is a matter of pride to all. It should be the aim of the college to secure more men possessed of the ambition and energy of Prof. Palmer, while such a loss as this should not be permitted under any considerations. If an efficiency could be secured in every department of college instruction at Harvard equal to that of the department of philosophy or of Greek...
...humor. Its only considerable rival hitherto has been the Columbia Spectator, (although the Spectator differs so much in its scope from the Lampoon that it may perhaps deny that it is a rival of the latter,) and although it can undoubtedly be said without any undue exhibition of local pride that the Lampoon has far surpassed the Spectator in all literary features and in the character of its letter-press in general, yet it must be confessed that the latter often excels the former in the artistic merit and in the humor of its illustrations. A third competitor...
ended a stirring invocation to the "Harvard Corps, our bulwark and our pride...