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Pictures were taken at four different times, and we think the steward showed himself very inconsiderate in not keeping the hall open eighty seconds beyond the usual time. It was noticeable that very few men left the hall before the photographers were done. It was also noticed that those who were in and under the gallery and in the small room adjoining the large hall, were the most quiet and concerned of all. Have they forgotten their freshman physics and the laws of the propagation of light...
...understand that the question is coming up of abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
...with the individual instructors, but with the general management. What is sadly needed is a head, some one who will be to this, what Professor Bocher is to the French department. At present there are in German two instructors, and two assistant professors, but no full professor, and we think that it is due to this more than anything else, that the department has been so conducted as to call forth such severe criticism as it does from the students who are trying to acquire some knowledge of this language...
...Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists, Are our students ever so carried away by the fascination of sport as to suffer any appreciable interference with their regular college duties? We must again answer in the negative...
...expenses. Books, stationery, furniture, coal, tobacco and all such standard goods might, through an association, be procured at wholesale rates, and furnished to students at much lower prices than they are now obliged to pay. The matter is well worth investigation, and a little thought upon it will, we think, waken an interest which will in the end be of benefit...