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...rather striking contrast to the article in the New England Magazine on Harvard Clubs and Club Life comes the announcement in the calendar of the other side of Harvard societies. Organizations like the Botanical Club and the Natural History Society also have their place in the life of the college and deserve recognition as a distinct feature of the University. The object of these clubs differs largely from that of the more purely social organizations. Their work to a great extent supplements the work of the college, giving a certain interest to study not always to be found in ordinary...
...college clubs and of their importance which is little considered, even in the college itself. In this aspect the clubs are of value not to all the members, but only to the officers. The benefit referred to is that of the experience derived from managing the organizations. There is rather apt to be in college a feeling that everything is running on of itself, and that the world needs no urging or even directing. Experience in managing any one of the college organizations, be it the Botanical Club or the 'varsity eleven, does a great deal to destroy the illusion...
...early colonists which cannot fail to arrest the attention of the reader of general literature, and which are of great value since they are the "unconscious expressions of the sentiment which prevailed in their day." The description of "Bryant's New England Home," by Henrietta S. Nalmer, too, though rather long and suggestive of padding is still interesting, and the cause assigned for the remarkably advanced and liberal ideas which have centered about Cummington is suggestive, to say the least...
...since then the provisions have been added that the courses must be of advanced grade and that they must be passed with high credit. Comparing the present system with that practised not long ago, one is so struck with the improvements made in the requirements that he is rather apt to stop there and not consider whether or no the regulations might be made so as to raise the standard higher. Vastly more significant as the present A. M. degree may be, it is still below what it should be, - a mark of rather extraordinary learning. Today the intelligent student...
...subject of teaching. There have been lectures on special branches of this subject during the first half-year which have proved eminently successful. The program for the second half-year, however, offers a still broader field for information. Instead of a single course of public lectures of a rather advanced nature, there is to be given a course by Professor White on the elementary methods of instruction, also courses addressed to teachers by Professor Davis and Professor Goodale. Of the three courses, that given by Professor White concerns itself most intimately with the college, not only by reason...