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...pleasant to think that at last, after a seeming forgetfulness of over two hundred years, the man to whom this flourishing university owes its very existence is to be fitly remembered by a handsome memorial in the form of a statue. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University, John Harvard early crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony and here after a short residence he died. From the first he was interested in education and his entire library of 500 volumes and half of his little fortune of $4,000 was bequeathed to the struggling college...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-We all appreciate the scarcity of college rooms. Two professors occupy one, two, the other four, I think it is, of the most desirable rooms in two of the cheapest buildings in the yard. This seems to be hardly fair to the poorer students, who try, year after year, to obtain a cheap yard room. The professors can afford to pay the high prices charged outside, the students cannot...
...position of the undergraduates in regard to conferring honorary degrees on the governor of Massachusetts has been, we think, clearly enough indicated heretofore. It may briefly be stated as follows: If the one holding the position of governor has done any thing which entitles him to the degree, the college will do itself honor, as well as the man, by conferring it. On the other hand, however, the college ought not to confer a degree on every one who happens to be governor of the state, simply because he is governor. As the authorities showed last year in the case...
...take the examinations in Cambridge on account of the experience to be gained, and also, it is to be suspected, because they wish to learn the names of the buildings before making their appearance as full-fledged freshmen in the fall. But aside from these considerations, we should think that a man could do himself more justice by taking these examinations at his own school, in familiar surroundings, then by placing himself in a new and strange situation, and we would advise all the students to whom this opportunity is offered to improve it, rather than...
...warm when we want them cool. It may be that students, when under the strain of an examination, are very difficult to please, and therefore their complaints should carry little weight, but we always feel so much compassion for the proctors during this trying period that we think a little more care might be taken on their account if not on our own. Anyone who has suffered under the intense heat which always accompanies an examination in U. E. R., or Massachusetts, must be aware of the difficulties, in addition to the paper itself, which have to be overcome...