Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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NOTWITHSTANDING what has been said in the College papers concerning the low, despicable advantage which some students have taken with regard to the privilege the Library has extended us in the use of reserved books, the evil still continues. Not only are reserved books hidden in various parts of the Library, so that no one can find them except the one who hid them for his own selfish purpose, but also books are constantly missing from the shelves and can be found nowhere in the Library, the supposition naturally being that some student has secretly carried off the book...
...then leave the hearer to judge for himself. It was remarked some time since, that instruction in theology should not exclusively deal with the tenets of a certain sect, but should be broad enough to leave the choice of faith to be made after a just statement of the various principles which are the rallying points of the different sects of Christendom. The same thing is most eminently true of political economy. Most men, on entering College, have given little or no attention to any economic subject. They get at Harvard a strong bias towards free trade for America...
...following were the involuntary contributions of Boston young ladies to the success of the great students' political procession: sixty-five handkerchiefs, of which eleven are of silk; one black and white shawl; and various pieces of hats. All these articles serve now as trophies in the rooms of some of the students...
...sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution" of the officers. The aim of a class should be to secure the most able men for each position, irrespective of his standing as regards the various societies. Class Day is not Society Day, and if, on account of the careful allotment of so many offices to each society, the exercises should prove uninteresting and the arrangements bungling, not the various societies, but the class, will be held responsible. We do not say this because we believe...
...authorized by Messrs. Shreve, Crump, & Low, to state that if the medals which were given as prizes at the H. A. A.'s spring meeting last May, are brought into their establishment on Washington Street, they will be suitably engraved, free of charge. This is inserted in response to various inquiries made in regard to the same...