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...that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain a strict discipline, and to admit in this department any persons who show that they seek these advantages for the purpose of genuine study. The report of the committee on the relations of the faculty to the overseers was adopted, and Hon. Mr. Lowell was appointed a committee to express the regret...
...believe sincerely that literary work is done at Harvard which has a distinct merit of its own, and which is worthy to be put in permanent form. We do not, however, intend to conine ourselves in any strict sense to literary subjects. In the Finance Club, the Historical Club, the Philosophical Club, and the various other organizations of the college, as well as in the graduate schools, we believe that work is being done which, if written in clear and good form, is well worth publication. Our aim will be to represent the best thought of the university, as well...
...stream, at anchor, are the various ships attached to the academy. Of these, the one of most interest is, perhaps, the "Santee," an old frigate, used as a place of confinement for those cadets who find academic law too Strict for their exuberant spirits. With regret it must be said that at present she has quite a full crew...
...army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service. In a few days we shall publish a similar article from a naval cadet at Annapolis, where possibly the discipline is more strict, and the duties more arduous...
...every school, and can be read aloud in seventeen minutes. The consequence of this is that politics tend to become legal, and the Bar has far more importance than in England, where Parliament is omnipotent. Americans often say that their whole political history has been a struggle of strict as against loose constructionists. It is only fair to say that the American constitution works well, because it was imposed on a people educated in English legal habits. Hence the very conservative tone prevailing in America, and the love of old and fixed forms which they show...