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...would give to those who desire to consult many books is obvious; the Library is almost the only place in the University where we are secure from interruption, and many students find it far more convenient to work there than in their rooms. Again, those of us who want to read the magazines before they fall into the clutches of the professors and are taken from us for an indefinite time, would have a greater chance of seeing them; and we should be somewhat better protected against those few students who reach the Library early in the afternoon, select...
...appointment of an Instructor in Singing is a step that has given much satisfaction and it is evident that it meets a want which has long been felt. There are many men in college who know just enough about singing to wish to know more, and there are many others who know nothing about it, but would be glad to learn; to all such the present opportunity will doubtless prove a welcome one. Mr. Carey brings to his work a good reputation, and a method of instruction which has been very successful elsewhere. If he can succeed in arousing...
...direct me to a quiet house in Cambridge where I can pass my last two years at the Law School in peace? I don't want to go more than three miles away; I will not go where there is a musical instrument (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and the rules of the house must prohibit duns, pedlers, subscription agents, editors, and, in short, everybody. I don't think I exact too much; at least my instructors (to whom I refer) never thought me much too exact at recitations...
...well-known fact that the apparatus in our old gymnasium is not what it should be, not what we should expect to find in a well-regulated gymnasium, and the idea of again making use of these old-fashioned fixings is absurd. We want better, and if better is not given us we may as well continue to use our old gymnasium with all its inconveniences...
...advertisements that make up, by far, the largest part of the Boston papers, must have been struck with the popularity and the prevalence of the word "Harvard" as a trade-mark-and advertising sign. The amusing circumstance connected with this use of the word is the entire want of connection between the thing advertised and the college for which it is named...