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...special requests." There are numerous objections - such as the greater proportion of students in our case - to the adoption of such a plan at Harvard. Another plan suggested has been either that some member of the faculty deliver lectures to undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many...
...that he was going where he could get ten thousand per year, - and yet, he has accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College - with no salary the first year, and agreeing to accept what is offered him after that; surely a strange proceeding in a money point of view. Various rumors were afloat at the time of his resignation. Some said that he had been asked to resign by the trustees, while the more general and well authenticated belief was, that President Garfield had offered him the position as minister to one of the courts of Europe. The death...
...study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than they would...
EDITOR HARVARD HERALD : As is well known, there have been several attempts among the students, of late years, to provide some means of procuring books and of protecting themselves from extortionate prices. For various reasons, these enterprises have been short-lived, though every one was ready and willing to profit by the advantages they afforded. It seems that the principal reason is, that Mr. Sever always cuts prices for a time so that the enterprising students are unable to successfully compete with him, their capital being limited, and he having other resources upon which to rely, as well...
There are about 150 college journals of various kinds published in this country. Yale heads the list with three annuals, one monthly, two bi-weeklies, one daily and two or three occasionals. - [News.] Harvard has three bi-weeklies, - the Crimson, Advocate and Lampoon, - two dailies, one annual, - the Index, - besides the Calendar, published weekly, and the University Bulletin...