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...recent visitor to the library writes to a London journal as follows : The library at Harvard College, or rather University, is placed in a handsome structure of granite, near the entrance of the college yard. But what I want to speak of especially is the perfect management of the distribution of books. I have visited nearly all the prominent libraries of Europe and America, but I must confess that I was never so forcibly impressed with the perfection to which library management can be brought as I was at the Cambridge institution." The writer then explains the system of delivery...
...merely to the end of adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world, is to have its final outcome in the degenerating of this sport into a mere form of racing contests, then the "boom" is to be deplored rather than welcomed. I am not such a fanatic as to disapprove...
...York Times says very pertinently of the recent scrape of the Williams College freshmen, that "the incident shows for the hundreth time the imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly...
...canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been done here to inaugurate such a movement." Such considerations as these would apply...
With the new term it is hoped that the great improvement of fare at Memorial will have the effect of inducing many men who left the hall during the recent trouble to return. The success of the association depends upon the number of boarders and every one should contribute thereto by joining the hall...