Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...DRENNAN.THE new term of Annex opens with an attendance of 42, nearly twice the number of last year. There will be about 30 classes, or about one maiden and a third for each class, on an average...
...much complaint on the part of the students. When a man has elaborate theses to write, as in Political Economy 3 and History 5, of a hundred pages or so in length, one of two things must happen: either he must neglect his regular work and write them during term time, or he must devote his Christmas recess to the task. Either of these courses seems equally bad, and we cannot believe that the amount of time necessarily employed in looking up a small point in history would not be better employed in the more general work which is sacrificed...
...literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses. It is but a vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly...
AGAIN the College papers are forced to take notice of the childish conduct - not to use a harsher term - of the Freshman Class. The very fact that the body of students who attended the theatre last Tuesday evening went in the name of the class, should have operated to make them behave themselves at least decently, even if they possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time...
...October, when the Library was first opened on Sunday, no less than forty-five men took advantage of the new privilege. The day was clear, the weather mild, the men not driven with work (the term had then just begun), and yet the Library was used in the few hours by more than twoscore students. The extensive use of reserved books, the heartiness with which every improvement is welcomed that facilitates the use of the Library, show how valuable is the aid it gives to members of the University. In view of all this, the opening of the Library...