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...completed during the summer. However, the cars cannot be run in the Cambridge division until the Transit Commission has finished the Beacon Hill tunnel now under construction. The Elevated Company, which is doing the Cambridge work, anticipate that their division will be completed well in advance of the other section, probably some time in the early fall. At that time that surface cars will be moved back to Massachusetts avenue from Mount Auburn street...
...Plays of Shakspere, for undergraduates and graduates, by one of Harvard's distinguished scholars. The course has an enrollment of over a hundred men attracted by the study of the great poet, and the name of the lecturer. Unlike most of our large courses, English 2 has no section meetings, reports, or theses. The marks are therefore deduced entirely from examinations. Without stopping to criticize this scheme, a relic of an obsolete system of undergraduate instruction, the writer would call attention to the character of the mid-year examination recently given by the professor in charge...
...generally 50 to one and often much higher. Unfortunately these latter are the courses where the need of personal contact is greatest, since the student is a novice in the field, ignorant of phraseology and a typo in method. Yet to these beginners is vouchsafed the least assistance, the section men to whom is left the task of giving individual instruction being in general but little more advanced than those whom they instruct. In striking contrast are the small courses composed of scholars advanced enough in their subject to be able to pursue it, under the general supervision...
...library, which is a famous theological collection and consists of about 70,000 volumes, some of which are rare manuscripts and first editions, will be housed in a specially constructed fire-proof stone and steel section of the building, having stack room for 150,000 volumes. With it will be placed the Harvard Theological Library. The chapel will be on the second floor of one division of the building and will be lighted by windows of old English pattern for which glass of the 13th and 14th century style is to be made. In the building will be four class...
...meeting of the Sophomore Finance Committee which was held yesterday afternoon it was decided to assess each member of the class 50 cents for class dues. The following men have been assigned to collect these: Section 1, head, S. M. Felton; R. C. Evarts, Q. S. Greene, G. N. Hurd, G. M. Rushmore: Section 2, head, R. G. Ervin; H. N. Baldwin, H. C. Everett, Jr., H. B. Gardner, C. M. Makepeace, F. H. Palmer; Section 3, head, P. J. Stearns; W. J. Blake, J. A. Donovan, J. F. Foristall, R. F. Long, D. J. Lynn; Section 4, head...