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Prof. Shaler, at his initiation into the Signet on Thursday night, read a paper on "Sympathy as Shown in Custom." He has a book in preparation on the subject...
...unusually large audience listened to the debate at the Harvard Union last night. The subject was, "Resolved: That Russian Nihilism is justifiable." The vote on the merits of the question resulted in 67 votes for the affirmative and 43 for the negative. The following gentlemen spoke as principal disputants, affirmative, A. B. Houghton, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87; negative, A. C. Boyden, '86, and J. M. Merriam, '86. The skill in argument was decided in favor of the negative by a vote...
...books. At present the bound periodicals can be taken out as any other books and kept out for one month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles...
JUNIOR THEMES.Junior theme III will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Subject: A Narrative...
...some general substitute, not only for written examinations, but for the special tests, already suggested, which may soon be diminished in many courses, owing to a corresponding change in the nature of these studies. Moreover, these substitutes must be in each case fitted to the particular character of the subject. This seems a hard problem, and perhaps would be, had it not, like many other urgent questions, begun to solve itself. Everyone has noticed the growing importance of thesis-writing in college; it is now acknowledged to be necessary to the pursuit of such studies as Philosophy and Political Economy...