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...Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt it at whatever sacrifice of independence and comfort on our own part...
...their best talents to writing elementary text-books, and leaves no time or opportunity for scientific research and inquiry. The results of this are seen at every American college. The time which should be occupied by our old and able professors in individual research and higher instruction is often almost entirely taken up by elementary instruction, such as could be given as well by younger...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The wide-spread dissatisfaction in regard to Memorial Hall board is once more seeking expression. What we chiefly complain of is not that board is $4.58 a week, but that the food is of actually bad quality, and, more than that, is rendered almost uneatable by the poor cooking it receives. The amount received from over five hundred boarders at $4.58 a week certainly ought to provide food of good quality and well cooked; and with a capable and conscientious steward it would undoubtedly provide such food. Without exception, every student with whom I have talked about...
...follows: 1. That alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. 2. That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from both stimulants. 3. That those who have tried both moderation and total abstinence find the latter the more healthful practice. 4. That almost every brain-worker would be the better for abstinence. 5. That the most abstruse calculations may be made and the most laborious mental work performed without artificial stimulus. 6. That all work done under the influence of alcohol is unhealthy work. 7. That the only pure brain stimulants are external ones - fresh...
...there follows the testimony of almost all the prominent authors and scholars of the world, from W. D. Howells to Victor Hngo, on the subject of the use of stimulants and tobacco. Many approve of a moderate use of both. None of those quoted, however, resort to alcohol as a habitual stimulus to thought. And many yet abjure the use of both alcohol and tobacco. Their combined testimony, however, cannot fail to be of use to any student in forming his opinions on a matter so vexed and disputed as the question of total abstinence and temperance at present...