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...present arrangement, those who do not have the slight advantage of position in the Junior year have it in the Senior year. For those Juniors whose names fall in the first half of the alphabet, and consequently speak among the first this year, will by the same rule, next year, fall among those who speak in the middle of the evening; and those Juniors whose speeches are in the middle of the list will next year have the disadvantage of speaking at the end of the evening, when the judges have become weary. The present change conforms to the same...
...question has arisen as to the eligibility to a position on a class nine of an unmatriculated student who has at some past time been a member of a class; or of a student in the Scientific School who has never been in the Academic department. Among the rules which the class nines are bound by, the Advocate gives the following : "Only past or present members of each class, that are still in the Academic department of the college, shall be eligible." By the strict wording of this rule, a Scientific student is not eligible, as he certainly...
...Bayard was the favorite of the University. But this does not mean that the Democrats in the University outnumbered the Republicans, for other reasons prove this not to be the case. The real meaning of the vote is that intelligent and conscientious men will not allow party filiation to rule their better judgment and force them to support an unfit or corrupt candidate. How much influence this warning will have with the leaders in both the great parties, we are unable to say, but we fear that it will be very little. The University, however, in declaring for an honest...
Harvard men are generally strong in the legs, the extensor, flexor, and calf being as a rule well developed; and there is only about one case in ten where special exercise for the legs has been ordered. The usual weak point is the upper portion of the chest, and the neck, which in many instances is bent forward. This is generally the result of continual stooping over a desk, as many students have had little attention paid to their physical development while their bones were easily bent from their normal state. There have been no prevailing weaknesses, such as diseases...
Those few professors who have been alluded to above as an exception to the general rule are deservedly the most popular with the students. This proves that if more of this social intercourse were to be had, more good might be done, and that the chances of success warrant a fair trial. It proves, too, that students appreciate the hospitality that is offered them, and oftentimes gain more by seeing the professor at his fireside than on his raised platform in the recitation-room...