Word: also
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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YOUR last issue contained an answer, by one signing himself "X'81," to the proposal for the formation of a Freshman Glee Club. We presume by the tone of this correspondence that the author has evidently been maltreated by the Lords of Creation (Sophomores). We also wish this gentleman to understand that when the Freshmen wish their hard treatment to be brought before the college (although a most interesting topic), we will take a man from our own class to express our grievances, not one who signs himself ex-eighty...
...fact that this year, for the first time in the history of the University, all departments have the same term, vacation, recesses, and holidays, - a fact which tends to make the various departments "feel themselves to be co-ordinate members of one body, - the University." The Report also discusses the cost of education at Harvard, the change of stewards at Memorial Hall, post-graduate instruction, voluntary recitations, the new requirements for admission, and other matters of importance. An extended notice of the Report will be found in another column...
...magazine, and thus no better time than the present could be found for the publication of an index to its contents. This index will be of especial interest to all Harvard students and graduates, since during its whole life the Review has been essentially a Harvard publication. We would also call the attention of other college papers to the index, since it is a work which will be of especial value to college libraries...
...this be a story-book, "it is our greatest anxiety to have it, not thinking for a moment on what it contains; whether good or bad, it is all the same." The "bitter consequences," of course, are the "injuring of the brain by losing all the intellectual faculties and also ruining the body by sickness," to say nothing of the fact that it leads one into "the worst of crimes." What a hot-bed of iniquity Gore Hall must...
...medium scholars of the class on whom the privilege of voluntary recitations has the worst effect. The absence of strong purpose, which is the cause of their mediocrity, also prevents their making a valuable use of a liberty which they nevertheless eagerly welcome. In order to stimulate the middle part of the class, and at the same time allow a beneficial liberty to that part of the class who could use such a privilege, the present system of regulated voluntary attendance was decided upon; and the Dean thinks that an extension of this system to the Junior class might profitably...