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...editorials are varied in their subject-matter and, with the exception of a roundabout and redundant column on the question of the "Annex." are decidedly to the point. Whether so much wit and humor is an advantage in the discussion of serious college questions seems doubtful, it is, at any rate, a little incongruous when introduced into a note of gratitude to the faculty itself...
...suggestion of Professor Norton in regard to a memorial to Phillips Brooks in the form of a library and a reading room for Harvard is worth serious consideration, for such a memorial would be of infinitesimal value to the University. The need of a new library and a reading room is a crying one, growing more and more obvious every year and long ago reaching a point where some action must be taken. Gove Hall has long since ceased to be satisfactory; it is built upon a poor model and is too small to hold our increasing library, while...
...examinations till the very close of the university course. Of course, this relaxation, following upon the grinding work in the gymnasium, has some evil effects for a time, the men let their work go to a great extent, out it is not long before they settle down again to serious study...
...advantages arising from this are several and important. In the first place it will relieve the work hitherto borne by undergraduate managers of the various teams. This work has naturally taken a large part of their time and thought with serious detriment to their college studies. They will, however, be appointed as before, but the responsibility and a large part of the work will be taken from them...
...much better than when a country is thrown into confusion by political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write at all, or they wrote in a serious, controversial style, removed as far as possible from poetical sentiment. With their minds full of the important disputes going on around them, what wonder that they found no time for poetry...