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...editorial yesterday on the inconvenience cause by closing the chemical laboratory, was written under a misapprehension of the facts. The chemical laboratory is to remain open during the examination...
...England, with how much greater force do they apply to America? And it is to her universities that America should look for the spread of "sweetness and light." Harvard should be and has been the principal seat of culture of this country, but how much longer will she remain so if she throws aside the study of the language and customs of the people who were "the great exponents of humanity's bent for sweetness and light, of its perception that the truth of things must beat the same time beauty." To quote a little more from Mr. Arnold: "Sweetness...
...great degree the desire of new men to try for the undergraduate crews. While I would not wish in the least to dampen the ardor of our legal fellow-students, it does seem that it would be but just for them to allow the class races to remain distinctively class races. They would perhaps allow a suggestion that to show their earnestness in rowing and their disinterested intentions, they should get a good eight in training and row the University of Pennsylvania for the championship of the world...
...both to students and to outsiders. He was strongly opposed to a fence around the new grounds and regretted that the circle of benches now on Jarvis shut off so large a part of the grounds from public view. What resource in default of this customary one there would remain to pay the expenses of intercollegiate contests, the discussion did not bring to light...
...public support of higher education, as recently delivered at the annual meeting of the board, are presented below: Mr. Walker thought higher education should be provided for otherwise than by annual charge upon the tax-payers. One reason was that such education was too essential to the community to remain a subject for legislative vagaries; another was that it should be religious, not to say sectarian; a third reason was the inevitable increase of a citizen's burdens as a bachelor for the luxury of a college education of the children of his wealthy neighbor. One of the motives that...