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...have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought not to be. One of the first things a man, who wants to make as much of the advantages of college life as possible, should do, is to make his way into the library and acquaint himself with all the necessary particulars of its management. The man who fails to do this cheats himself not only out of the small amount charged on his term bills "for use of the library," but out of one of the greatest privileges that his college has to offer...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to acquaint the readers of your paper with a great calamity that has come upon this university, at present so devoted to study. Zion's Herald has left us in peace, Joseph Cooke has gone West on an exhibition tour as an "Eastern dude," while Gen. Butler has retired to the quiet of his study with a borrowed copy of a degree and the "trot" furnished by the Advertiser. But no sooner do these deadly foes of Harvard retire from the attack than an old foe re-appers on the scene - the "musical fiend...
...Greek courses on Saturday Prof. White remarked, in explaining to the section the reasons that actuated the faculty in refusing the petition of the students in regard to the Thanksgiving recess, that he very much regretted that there was no way by which the faculty could acquaint the students with the reasons for their actions. He said that if the students could always get the authoritative announcements of the causes of the various actions of the ruling boards, he did not doubt that much better feeling would result between the students and the faculty...
...turn from the instructors who keep us in what seems to be unnecessary suspense, and contemplate those whose marking system is a mystery to all but themselves, we are tempted to remonstrate once again. And when, in addition, we think upon the course of those who refuse to acquaint us with our marks at all, we feel sure that this final growl on our part is pardonable. We would recommend that the College press be still more chary of its praise, if the adulation of a three-line editorial has such a disastrous effect...
...made their report. While they find the College generally in a satisfactory and improving condition, changes are suggested in almost all the departments. In the department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place...