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...different professors that have charge of all the courses which we think of selecting for three years' work, and get a description of them; but the description is apt to be meagre, and our ideas confused from not wishing to bother the professors for a second and third account. Aside from this, it is a great nuisance to go to a professor's house or room a number of times, only to find that he is not at home, to say nothing of the trouble to the professor when you do find him at home...
OFFICERS of the K. N. for the second half-year: President, A. A. Wyman; Vice-President, A. Tonks; Secretary, F. H. Harvey; Treasurer, R. Coit...
...action of an instructor in history in remitting the second of two theses which had been given out as prescribed work at the beginning of the year, is worthy of imitation. This attempt to cram men like Strasburg geese has become a serious matter. More than a fixed amount of work, especially in history, cannot be done without neglect of other courses, and extra work, if forced upon those who take the elective, is performed at the expense of the regular and more important part of the year's study in that department. Thesis-writing compels neglect of the topics...
...bound, sooner or later, to come out creditably. Laziness and indifference have also a large share of influence in keeping men from entering. The former, at best, is unmanly, while as to the latter no one has a right to be indifferent to seeing his college take a second or third-rate position in athletic sports, if he can aid at all, and every one can aid by taking interest in these matters...
NOTWITHSTANDING reports to the contrary, the second Freshman eight are still hard at work in the Gymnasium...