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...their tour. This is, indeed, very gratifying, and the nation at large can certainly be congratulated that the wisdom of its one military school so far surpasses the combined wisdom and experience of the foremost colleges of the country. Perfect self-satisfaction, it must be admitted, is the surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point should be awarded the palm. These gentlemen in their report have passed some overt but severe criticisms upon our colleges, some of which are no doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military...
...well as at Harvard are strongly opposed to the strict enforcement of the rule. There has been a general inclination to try the rule and see how it would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify...
...pages. "The argument is, in brief, that it may be advantageous to encourage by legislation a branch of industry which might be profitably carried on, which is therefore sure to be carried on eventually, but whose rise is prevented for the time being by artificial or accidental causes." To test this argument Mr. Taussig proceeds "to examine how far protection . . . was actually applied and how far it was the cause, or an essential condition, of that rise of manufactures which took place." In the second chapter the industrial history of the United States from 1789 to 1838 is concisely recounted...
...recess has been profitably employed by the crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The paper set the freshmen in their Trigonometry examination, Saturday, was so unusually difficult as to provoke the inquiry whether our examinations ought to be given so as to test our knowledge of the subject and familiarity with its leading principles, or of its little minute, fine points and catch questions, the acquirement of which is of no practical value and only serves to obscure its more important features. No one can for a moment doubt which view is held by all fair-minded persons and by the most of oar instructors, but the paper in Freshmen...