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...college took a fresh start yesterday afternoon; out-door work began. It is always an important occasion when the teams can get out of doors; for indoor work, however faithfully it may be done, is still only the laying of foundations. With out door practice begins the rapid progress of a team in the fine points of their work; more life, more of a feeling of actually accomplishing, something takes hold of the men. The spirit with which the crew rowed yesterday showed the advantage of actual work on the river. After the sifting out of candidates the men have...
Among the many interesting recent developments of the University elucidated in the newly published report of the President, perhaps the Summer School has obtained least general recognition. This school has had a remarkably rapid growth, as the fact that $1720 were paid as fees by the students in the summer courses in 1886 as against $7,873.50 in 1891 testifies. The Faculty last year decided, after much discussion and deliberation, "to admit to its list of courses that may be counted for the Bachelor's degree eight summer courses - one in German, two in Engineering, one in Physics...
Some months ago a committee of the New York Harvard Club was appointed to investigate the cost of a new club house and a suitable lot of land. The growth of the club has been so rapid of late as to make larger quarters indispensable...
...more than half of the total gain is made in these three schools. An interesting point in connection with this is that the increase in the number of graduates of other colleges who have entered these higher schools has been more than proportional to the growth of the schools, rapid as that has been. This means that the character of these schools and the sort of work they are doing is being more widely recognized and valued. Harvard determines the standards...
...same strangeness and weirdness about the various movements, so characteristic of this latter work. The first movement is entitled "In a Haunted Forest." It represents the sounds of a forest on a windy night, the effect of the moaning and shrieking wind being brought out very distinctly by a rapid crescendo by the violins from lower to higher tones. The movement suggests the approach, the actual presence and the departure of a tremendous gale. Then follows a short movement, full of the finest harmonies, entitled "Summer Idyl" and a less brilliant movement, "The Shepherdess Song." The Suite ends with...