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...that we learn of the Registrar's interference with its continuance. This is not the first occasion on which the present Registrar has interfered officiously, when not officially, with matters that seem without the sphere of his action, and has manifested a spirit towards students that may in future render the legitimate exercise of his functions less agreeable than would be desirable. We certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous and extreme in his opinions and acts regarding undergraduates than any one of his superiors, we humbly...
...order to assist the Committee in carrying out their plans, and render the roping in of the Yard effectual, the Students are requested to conform strictly to the above arrangements...
...private relations of friendship that his loss will be most felt. His friends will miss one who was warm-hearted, loyal, and generous to a fault; one whose character, far above the suspicion of anything mean or paltry, was yet tempered with so much modesty as to render it obtrusive to no one; one who never hesitated to express his strict and conscientious sentiments, and yet was always considerate; in short, one whose wholesome, lovable, and manly nature inspired an ever-increasing respect and affection...
...this fact. In the second half of their Sophomore year our fellow-students are required to devote a portion of their time to the study of the subjects in question, and, if they do not neglect their work, it is reasonable to suppose that they will learn enough to render them intelligent and useful members of the political community. The comments of a skilled instructor during a four months' course would be more beneficial than the disconnected arguments of more or less unpractised debaters during as many years...
...seriously, all that is possible should be done to render our rooms agreeable. There should be two goodies to share the work, - one to make the beds and do what most requires neatness, while the other should carry out the ashes, etc.; and the number of superintendents should be so increased that each goody should feel liable to a weekly or daily inspection, so that, if ignorant, she might be properly taught. But of course Harvard is too poor; and when I count up the different improvements which instructors and students desire, as well as all the advantages of instruction...