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...since 1872, the ground covered in the department of political economy has remained practically unchanged. This is not as it should be, for Harvard, with the reputation which it has for originality and energy, should be the most active of all colleges in encouraging a comprehensive study of the vital topics of the day. Why heavy expense should be incurred in the encouragement of the study by a handful of men of Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic and the Zend, when the college is unable to support more than one professor in political science, is hard to explain, especially as the interest...
...settled before Yale's challenge is officially and definitely settled. The simple gist of the matter is, that Harvard does not wish to bind herself to row a race until she knows definitely and finally what the conditions and arrangements are, especially when the arrangements in dispute are so vital as they are in this case. The race, we hope, will be rowed. It is only very lately that there has seemed to be any doubt of its being rowed. It is to be hoped that an amicable adjustment of the points in dispute will soon be reached...
ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...
...athletic association is urgent in its demands for a level running track of a third or quarter of a mile in extent, in place of the present inclined fifth of a mile. The foot-ball men, and the whole college on their behalf, say that it is of vital importance that they should have a good enclosed field in which to play matches. The base-ball men recall the throngs of people who see all their games on Jarvis field, as contrasted with the few hundreds who are occasionally public spirited enough to pay their way to the benches. Then...
...HARVARD HERALD: Now that the mid-years are almost upon us, the old question about heating Massachusetts again comes up. Past experience has shown that, heretofore, all efforts in this direction have proved of no avail. Is it impossible to heat the building? This is certainly a matter of vital importance to the students who are to have examinations there. In all probability the weather will be very cold during the time of the examinations and the dreary thought of sitting three hours in that ice-house is certainly not encouraging...