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...portions of the floors of the central part of the building that lie over the two recitation rooms, will be deadened on the under floor by laying cement mortar, and covering the whole with stout manilla paper. The under floors are to be made of spruce plank, and he upper of hard pine; all the doors will be made of ash. In the rooms destined for experiments in magnetism, all the door frames, window frames, and all framing and construction whatever, will be put up with brass, bronze, copper, zinc, or bell metal nails, or screws, to the rigid exclusion...
...often attacked, and attacked very severely, but never by those who have had practical experience of its workings. It is only a dozen years since, with great doubts as to the results of their action, a bare majority of the Harvard faculty voted to make the studies of upper classmen elective; it is only three years since they voted to make attendance on recitations voluntary; yet I doubt if ten members of that faculty could be found today who would advocate the repeal of either of those measures. It is because they have seen its fruits that the faculty...
...Cambridge, England, every upper classman calls on each freshman of his college, and the freshman must return the call. The upper classman, if his younger brother is out, leaves his card, but the freshman must persevere until he finds his senior at home...
...about two weeks more remain before the class races, the daily movements of the class oarsmen are beginning to be watched with greater interest; the freshmen especially seem disposed to encourage their crew by their presence at the boat house, while every pleasant day finds a good number of upper classmen congregated on the floats. All of the crews are now comfortably seated in their shells, which are in the main rowed very steadily. The freshmen are showing up remarkably well, a fact which looks well for the future of our University crew; their recent race with the Unions...
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