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...affords but little consolation to the Harvard student who grieves over the present system of compulsory chapel attendance in vogue at this college, to think that the students at other colleges in general are worse situated in this respect than we ourselves are. It is but a melancholy satisfaction at best to contemplate the case of the Williams student, regularly driven to two chapel services a day - morning and evening - or of those others who have to hurry, winter and summer, at 7 o'clock or earlier every morning to the cold precincts of the college chapel. Nevertheless these comparisons...
...unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more so as the elective system affords a method of avoiding attendance. "The majority of the students would be pleased, in my opinion," our correspondent writes, "if chapel was abolished...
...ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open...
...Taussig delivers his second lecture on the "History of Tariff Legislation" in Sever 11 at 7.30 P. M. today. His lecture will be on the American system as developed...
...recent emphatic condemnation passed upon the marking system by two of Harvard's most successful and experienced professors shows pretty clearly the drift that opinion in the matter is taking among progressive educators, and is especially interesting as indicating the probable views of the Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems...