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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...obliged to submit to a marking-system, if that can be called a system, in which each instructor acts upon a theory peculiar to himself; and this evil we have endured, because no way has presented itself by which we could escape from it. But is each instructor also to construe the rules of the Faculty in conformity to his own views of the best methods of instruction in an institution such as Harvard College, regardless of the rights and privileges of the students, as guaranteed to them by its government? If so, the sooner it is clearly understood...
THEY have a piano in the gymnasium at Williams, and they speak of it as one of the gymnasium's properties. Perhaps the Williams students practise calisthenics to the sound of soft music. The Athenaeum also tells us that college students are typical grumblers. For an aphorism this is good...
...exercises were interspersed with sons by Mr. J. H. Adams, the chorister, and by Messrs. Trenholm, Wentworth, Otis, and Peters. There was also a trio sung by Messrs. Wentworth, Trenholm, and Adams, and a duet by Messrs. Trenholm and Adams. The company broke up at about 11 o'clock...
DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably...
...June 27, I am sure that Yale men generally would be pleased to have the Harvard crew continue in training a few days longer, enter the N. A. A. O. regatta against Cornell and Columbia, and bear off the laurels of the much-talked-about "championship." If it were also announced that half of the same Harvard eight would subsequently compete for the four-oared cup, the number of entries therefor would be increased. Princeton, for instance, would be almost certain to train a four, if assured that the same would have a chance of trying conclusions with Harvard...