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...action taken at the last meeting of the faculty aiming to make the work done by students more systematical than heretofore, meets with our heartiest approval. There is too much aimless and ill-assorted work done here at Harvard, and something that will break it up is most necessary. We believe that this new supervision by the instructors and the faculty will not only do this, but will materially aid many earnest and thorough students...
...Bostons now tried hard to keep possession of the ball and stopped long throwing, but their rushes were checked near the centre. After ten minutes play our attack for the ball and some pretty passing followed, ending in a straight goal for Dudley. The Bostons amused themselves with aimless long throws during the rest of the half hour; only two of these throws came near our goal, and these were promptly caught and returned by Williams. The first half closed with the score, Harvard, 2; Boston...
...then shall a man form the habit of reading? Perhaps the easiest means, and this is the means next generally advised, is simply to "browse" through the library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree...
...spoke of President Eliot's proof that at present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only...
...second half-year is always more occupied than the first, and any change which tends to relieve it of its over-plus of work cannot but be regarded as a change for the better. When the mid-year examinations have dragged through their, to some of us, rather aimless existence, the startled student finds that the shadow of the cloister-like course of study which he must embrace to survive the annuals is close upon him. In past years, this realization of the coming storm has induced many to seek recuperation in a voluntary recess. But now we will...