Word: adds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Allow us, as editors of "The Harvard Portfolio," to add to the article which appeared in the CRIMSON of last Saturday, a word of explanation. The one thing which prevents every student from purchasing at the close of each collegiate year a large number of photographs of men and things that have interested him, is the expense involved. By recently improved processes it has now become possible excellently to reproduce photographs at a cost much below that of the originals. The function in the new publication is, then, to furnish in permanent form a representative collection of such reproductions. That...
While I am complaining, not without reason, I trust, against abuses of privilege, I wish to add an emphatic protest against college "sponges." Doubtless there are occasional times when earnest men do not, for a sufficient reason, bring their text books to a recitation or lecture; in which case it is entirely proper to ask the opportunity to look on with a neighbor in class, or glance over his lecture notes at a later time. But when a man systematically fails to bring his text-book to the class room, or cuts one lecture out of every three, and then...
Tuesday evening the Fencing Club will hold its regular monthly meeting in the club rooms. After the business meeting, the club will give a smoker, and to add to the enjoyment, two musicians have been engaged to play throughout the evening. Several members have consented to take part in a fencing contest, and there is also promised a bout with the single sticks. Only members will be admitted to the rooms, as the visitor's list, by vote of the committee, has been suspended for that evening...
...elements of commercial law and the fact that Professor Gray is giving a course at the Institute of Technology has induced the managers of the Advocate to send cards to the members of the college to find out their sentiment, for the purpose of petitioning the faculty to add such a course to the curriculum. Other editorials discuss the projects of bicycle races with Yale, the merits of cricket and the workings of the Foxcroft club...
...accomplishment cannot fail to add much honor and glory to the zeal which American students are showing in the matter. Many of the leading colleges in the country have contributed generously through their undergraduates, and the committee hope that Harvard will not be outdone by the other institutions of learning either in the heartiness or generosity of her subscriptions...