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...show this quality in sitting down, a lady should push her dress back with her right hand, and glide gently but firmly down an imaginary inclined plane to the right. The aesthetics come in in so timing the operation that the hand may be slipped out just before it is too late...
...consequence, hereafter, every elective in which a student passes his examinations will count towards his degree: hence, by anticipating some Freshman work, and making up twelve hours in all during the next two years, it will be possible to graduate in three years, if a man can show that he can undertake the extra work with safety. The regulation affecting failure in the Freshman year is consequently modified, as well. Instead of requiring an average of 40 per cent in the Freshman year, a man will not be dropped in future, unless he fails in seven hours of his work...
...great to be passed over by them, and time and temper would be wasted by those who insist on the fine points of Cushing's "Manual." A glance at the working of even such well-ordered legislatures as the United States Congress or the British Parliament will show how much that is disagreeable can be carried on in them, even under strictly constitutional rules. The Harvard Union was organized to give a chance for Debate to those who are interested in subjects of political and contemporary importance, and it has thus far fulfilled its object successfully. We therefore...
...President carefully reviews the growth of the elective system for the last ten years, and gives several reasons - now familiar to most of us - to show that this form of instruction is more suitable than that by recitation...
...profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer...