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Buley, '86, will probably be unable to return to college this year. His injuries, received in the gymnasium last term, have proved more serious than they were at first supposed...
...death of Professor Eustis, the university has sustained a serious loss and one which it will find it hard work to repair. Having received an education at the two leading sets of learning in their respective departments and a practical knowledge of his calling both as an officer and professor in the army, be was well qualified to accept the position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show...
...that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here at Harvard. The danger here is almost wholly that of indifference and sluggishness on the part of the busier, brighter, and more earnest, serious students, and for this reason an experiment would not be half so hazardous as the Committee seem to think. Let them have half the student representation elected by the more important student organizations and the other half appointed by the Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen...
...remedy for this seems to lie in confining the appointment of the referee and judges to members or alumni of neutral colleges. This being done, one of the most serious questions would be met. At present the judges use their time in coaching their respective teams, and are unable to give proper attention to the whole game, consequently as the judges always disagree, everything of necessity falls to the referee. With three impartial judges these difficulties would be obviated, and a degree of fairness would at once become the spirit of the game...
...absence of a course of instruction in the History of Political Theories forms a serious gap in the curriculum at Harvard. As has been shown by the article in these columns describing the several schools of Political Science, there is exactly such a course at Michigan University, at Columbia, and at Johns Hopkins. If one has time to read at length in the original Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only...