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Hereafter Dr. Hart's section in History 20 will meet Wednesdays at 10 o'clock in addition to the regular hour, until the mid-years...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I think that D's criticism of section 27 of the "New Regulations" is very just. The new rule is, in my opinion, inconsistent with one of the principles underlying the elective system, - that equal excellence in every study cannot be attained by the same individual, but that some minds are so constituted that they can not pursue certain branches with success. Now this principle is recognized by the faculty elsewhere, as is evidenced by the following extract from the 1886-87 mathematical announcement; "It is unadvisable for students who have little taste or capacity for Mathematics...
Last lecture there was a little blue-book circulating in the History 13 section, containing a petition for a list of general readings. The writer of this article put his name down on account of sheer laziness, he admits, but he saw other names that were irreproachable - names of men concerning whom "'88" would hesitate a long while before advancing his accusation of "laziness...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - In the new "Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," there is one rule that seems to be very unfair. I refer to the clause in section 27 relating to degrees cum laude, in which it is distinctly stated that no student who has ever fallen below grade C (I suppose the old 55 per cent.) shall be recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make...
...conscientious member of the Political Economy section in which an examination was recently held, computed that a notice of only forty-seven hours was given and that therefore the examination was illegal, as notice of more than 48 hours is required...