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...Yale papers is agitating the subject of toboganning as an amusement for hard-worked under-graduates...
...meeting of the Reform Club in Boston on Saturday evening, Prof. Taussig spoke on the "Continuation of Silver Coinage." Gen. F. A. Walker of the Institute of Technology also spoke on the same subject. A letter from Mr. Edward Clark was read...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate urges that something be done to cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that...
...wrought among us during the past twelve months. E. G. Ireland, '68, advocates raising the standard of our preparatory schools, until they are more nearly on a level with the German Gymnasia. He very justly says that such a change is needed to make the elective system effective. The subject is timely, and well worth attention. Under the title, Shall Harvard Lead? C. H. Barrows, '76 urges educated men to be reformers. The article is an able and earnest protest against the indifference and dilettantism which certainly prevails among certain classes here. Whatever may be thought of the special reforms...
...their place theses to be written by the students on topics given out by the instructor and suggested by the course. These theses could be written once a month, or less often, at the option of the instructor, their length varying, of course, inversely with the number required. The subjects could easily be made so comprehensive as to necessitate a fair knowledge of the ground covered by the course, and even if they were only special topics, the student would be so keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn...