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...occurred, we feel sure that a grain of patience added to a grain of comprehension could be taken by the grumblers with good effect. The books which cannot be found are not always "surreptitiously taken by a member of - ," as the communication of yesterday in regard to the binder showed. The communication to-day speaks of their being left on the tables in the reading room. While we certainly condemn this habit of not returning them to their proper places after using them, on the other hand we think that those who fail to find books at the first touch...
...accomplished by making such an appeal. The recent removal of restrictions at Harvard, as the result of repeated petitions signed by four fifths of the undergraduates, has served, however, to direct anew the attention of students in New Haven to the compulsory system prevailing at Yale and to show them what may be done by continued agitation. Yale students who are professing Christians, recently in the college press have opposed "compulsory worship...
...instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should be enough to show one of the reasons why I hope in time to see at Harvard a University Club that shall include both students and officers...
...talking seriously, after this uncontrollable mirth which the glad intelligence aroused in us, we must welcome this great improvement with the heartiest approval. It is only natural that Harvard could not for a great while longer show her face in the academic world while she had some 290,000 volumes stored away, inaccessible to everybody, as soon as the sun chose...
...salary less than that paid to an ordinary butler at the West End. So at Harvard our young men can study Sanscrit or Anglo Saxon, but get no training in the queen of arts, public oratory. By consequence, Harvard men when they go on the stump or platform generally show breeding and culture, and an amazing absence of oratorical power...