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...recitations." I guess he meant that they did n't have to go to them, but he told me that if he did n't go, some of the Professors would mark him zero for not going. Is that so? I guess he was funning; anyhow, I don't think it's fair. I ask you this, because I am getting out a hand-book on the "Elective System at Harvard," explaining it to outsiders, and I want to have a few facts. It will be published at the Riverside Press...
...writing a dissertation is so slow and painful, that no one who values his vacation will adopt it. A moment's reflection shows that the result is not proportionate to the labor, and that there must be an easier and equally sure way of gaining a prize. I think, in fact I feel sure, that I have discovered such a way; and, since I wish to advance the cause of literature at Harvard, I am willing to make it known. It cannot fail to give satisfaction, for it is the result of a careful psychological study of the involuntary workings...
MEMBERS of Latin 6 were glad to learn from Pliny that the Romans looked upon going to recitations as a waste of time and a nuisance. In these degenerate days it is pleasant to think that some of the qualities of the men of old are still left among...
...matter open to some doubt, we think, whether a number of students, authorized by none but themselves, have a right to travel through the country and give public performances under the name of the "Harvard Minstrel Troupe" or any like title. If there are any who are anxious for such professional distinction, and feel that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have...
...very many would prefer to employ the time which it takes up in some other way. History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...