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...will seriously defend the practice of choosing courses with a view to securing a degree along the lines of least resistance. However lightly men refer to the subject in conversation, a careful examination of most schedules will bring out the fact that the great majority select their studies with some higher motive than that of securing a passing grade. But it is equally true that there is a legitimate use for the so-called "snap" courses. When properly intermingled with solid subjects they afford a relaxation, and at the same time have a certain intrinsic value. If a business...
...regrets which Seniors express on leaving College is at their neglect of their opportunities for seeing places and institutions which others come far to visit. By this we do not refer merely to places of historical or literary interest in the neighborhood of Boston. There are many such excursions which would occupy a free afternoon or holiday and which would be well worth the time devoted to them. But there are in our very midst places whose existence is scarcely known except to specialization or advanced students. We refer to the museums...
...just the thing to give us a breathing space when our lady friends have asked more questions than we are able to bear. When Bessie, for instance, asks the why, when, and wherefore of each building, the long-suffering escort may well buy her a Class Day Lampoon and refer her to page 272, where she will find all such information ready made...
...amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this sort of mistake is made many times each year. We refer especially to the smaller clubs and societies with no particular prestige to insure their continuance...
...Corporation of an early allotment of rooms in Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton. By tomorrow at 10 o'clock the applications for rooms must be filed with the Bursar. The arguments in favor of concentrating the class during the Senior year are too familiar to make it necessary to refer to them here. The success of the plan, however, depends entirely on the number of men from 1907 who move into the Yard next year...