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...regular meeting of the Natural History Society, Wednesday night, the following members were elected. Messrs. W. M. Wadsworth, special; A. B. Seymour, special; B. D. Robinson, '87; J. A. Bailey, '88; E. L. Blossom, '88; L. M. Garrison, '88; and H. K. Job, '88. Mr. F. H. Sellers was elected Librarian. Mr. J. E. Humphrey read a paper on "Our Largest and Commonest Phaeosporea," giving keys for its determination of species in the field. Mr. G. H. Parker read a paper on Zoological classification, historically considered...
Every junior ought to make a special effort to be present at the coming class dinner. Those who remember the enjoyable dinner of last year ought certainly to need no further urging to make them sign the book at Bartlett's. Aside from all considerations of mere conviviality, however, the men of eighty-six should spare no efforts to make a success of the dinner, if for no other reason than that it has been several years since a junior class has met with anything but failure in its attempts to hold a class dinner...
...fare (425 hours per week offered by Harvard) the 12 hours most conducive to their mental growth? I have not met such young men among the undergraduates of any college, nor do I expect to meet them. If experienced men who devote a lifetime to the study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen, without any knowledge whatsover of the nature and advantage of studies between which he is told to choose, make anything like a selection...
...their private collections, but the society will also form a collection which will be added to that of the N. H. Society. The meeting was successful in every way, starting with sixteen, possibly eighteen, members. Of these, '84 has one, '85 one, '86 one, '87 two, '88 seven; special students two, Lawrence Scientific two. The meeting was earnest and interesting, and good work is to be expected from the new club...
Some space is devoted to describing the causes which have contributed to the great increase in the number of special students. This department of the university has now assumed such proportions as to call for special consideration from the faculty. "It is the special students of the college," says the report, "into whose quality it is most interesting to inquire. From the year's report exhibiting the work of the special students, it appears that some achieve an extraordinary amount of work, while others attempt little, and complete less." Naturally enough the special students include in their number both...