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...great ease. Thus a number of different phases of a campaign or battle could be clearly set before the eyes of the audience. Difficult situations could thus be more readily grasped and a better idea of the lectures carried away when it is over. To see is often to understand, and if this plan can be carried out with no more or even less trouble than the present one we shall hope to see it adopted. If it should turn out more costly or troublesome than we think, we should not expect the society, which has done so much...
...greatest number possible. Since the Historical Society has taken the series in hand, it owes it to the college that every practicable arrangement should be made, by which every person, especially every student, who desires it should be able to attend and enjoy the lectures. We were given to understand at first that the society had been refused the use of Sanders Theatre. When we complained of this we were told that we were laboring under a mistaken impression and that the theatre had been offered free to the society. But the society is said to have refused the theatre...
Besides retaining all the rules of last season against professionalism, the Harvard faculty, we understand, intend to pass a further regulation that games may only be played on the grounds of one of the competing colleges; or else of some other college...
...complained of ill treatment the last time they played at Hanover; on the other hand, gentlemen who witnessed the game assert that a member of the Harvard team addressed very ungentlemanly words to the umpire, a Hanoverman. Thus the question, like nearly all others, has two sides. I understand that the reason given by the Harvard delegates for advocating last year the expulsion of Dartmouth from the league, was the difficulty of getting to Hanover. Now, an express train with the finest palace cars that run out of Boston starts from Boston at 1 o'clock in the afternoon...
...with his physical and mental peculiarities." The Doctor says that it should be the duty of every teacher to know the condition of his pupils, and in this nineteenth century, with so many large cities and constantly increasing population, we need gymasia with men to manage them who thoroughly understand hygienic and physiological laws...