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...above report has been received, and its perusal has convinced me of the fact that the committee have been examiners in deed as well as in name. The insight the report gives into the real merits and defects of the various departments is a proof of the conscientious diligence with which the committee have performed their task. They have, by a personal and unannounced attendance on the recitations in each department, been able to judge of the instruction from the students' point of view, and have not formed their conclusions from the reports of the instructors themselves. The influence...
...church of the First Parish, the exercises of Class Day and Commencement were held last June in the Chapel instead of in the church. Then disappeared the last trace of the official connection between the College and the First Parish, - a connection which had been maintained in various forms for more than two hundred years." - President's Report...
...regards the course and hotels, New London and Saratoga seem to be the only places which promise to come up to the wishes and expectations of rowing men. In an article which appeared in the Magenta several weeks ago the writer strongly urges the selection of New London, giving various reasons for his preferring that place to Saratoga...
Could I recall the various titles under which such critical articles have appeared in our papers in the past, I am confident a reperusal of them would not only suggest a pleasing verbal dress for more such criticisms, but would stimulate the expression of them from the students of extensive or careful reading...
...undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals of natural history...