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...other. Experienced judges in Boston and Cambridge have pronounced such a system thoroughly impracticable, as it allows no way of knowing beforehand how much to provide for the regular boarders, since they may on all occasions change from one plan to the other without notification. It does not seem to us that such a privilege is at all necessary or that it should stand as an obstacle in the adoption of this new proposal. The University needs without a doubt a second dining hall. The Memorial Hall directors have hit upon something which promises well and is acknowledged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1893 | See Source »

...cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question if at the rates a man could live anywhere near the Memorial standard for four doars a week. However we need not concern ourselves with the success of the scheme if it is settled, as it seems to be, that the Corporation will not put up the sort of hall the students request. Apparently we have nothing to lose by accepting their plan, and perhaps a good deal to gain. As long as Mr. Belles has stated that the men who sign now will not be tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/28/1893 | See Source »

...study of the style and peculiarites of Thomas Hardy with more particular treatment of his last work, "Tess of the D'rUbervilles." The poetry of the number is below the average. The editorial on the methods of awarding scholarships is straight forward and reasonable, and the plans suggested certainly seem preferable to the methods now adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 4/28/1893 | See Source »

There was once an athletic meeting that happened to attend which commenced on time. A new organization managed it, their first attempt, and probably they didn't know any better. But it does seem a pity that our annual class races cannot get started inside of two hours behind the time set. If experience teaches that the boats can't be got off before half past five why not announce that hour? As it regularly has been everybody goes at four o'clock, fearing the possibility that by accident the race may start on time, and must wait an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/26/1893 | See Source »

...first thought was that religion is both a science and an art, and that full understanding of it as a science is not essential before a man may begin to practise it as an art. Pure speculation is by no means useless, and there are men who seem to be fitted, above everything else, for investigating scientifically the place of religion in the world. White we eagerly await the results of these men's researches. and while every man may push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Drummond's Talk. | 4/21/1893 | See Source »