Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
...decision of the boat-club officers and the executive committee of the University in regard to the management of the spring races. We note with pleasure that they have determined to adhere rigorously to their part of the bargain with Mr. Blakey. In another column will be found an account of the meeting and the programme of the approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance of this well-known rowing association into the race...
...hung there a few years ago, but was removed because of the malicious damage done it by the students. We hope all will recognize the utility of lighting that dark corner too much to give again a pretext for taking it away. The Weld entries are proverbially uncomfortable, on account of both the darkness at all seasons and the cold in winter that pervade them. This, at least, is a step toward reform; and, doubtless, it depends only on the conduct of the students themselves to get rid of many relics of a similarly barbaric nature...
...University Reporter, from Iowa, publishes the fourth part of a poem entitled "The Tide of Time." It contains a Miltonic account of Eve's little adventure with the serpent, in four columns. We should like to quote them as a whole, but as this is impossible, refrain altogether, for fear of awakening a desire for more, which we could not gratify...
...elective to overcrowd it, (that is to say, either to diminish the benefit of the course, or to overwork the instructor), the proper remedy is, either the addition of more electives in that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...