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...main object of all our examinations is to test individual proficiency with sufficient definiteness to enable the university to bestow its degrees and honors. Any such testing, however, must evidently be based on the character of individual work; otherwise it is not merely unjust, but it is a farce, pretending to represent what it really ignores. Now the character of individual work at Harvard varies with every man, and is resolvable only into the nature of the several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method...
...original design was carried out for a number of years; but recently, the trustees, being widely separated and engaged in distracting pursuits, began to find it hard to hit upon suitable young men upon whom they might bestow the income. The original sum of $13,000 had increased, by careful investment, to about $35,000; and the gentlemen, finding their work becoming too difficult laid the case before the donor, Prof. Tyndall, begging him to receive back the fund, or make some other disposition...
...dormitories. The list of the freshman class shows an increased percentage of those who are compelled to room outside the college buildings. There is plenty of available ground within the limits of the yard, and there are many rich alumni of Harvard who are anxiously awaiting a chance to bestow large fortunes upon the university. Under such favorable circumstances it seems as if something might be done that would add a charm to many a man's student life, and also save him from the positively cruel knives of the local landlords...
...heard of after graduation. The man who will succeed and whose training will do the greatest good to himself and to others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which the college life is so ready to bestow, and in the literary or scientific undergraduate societies, on the staff of a college paper, and in a dozen other possible ways, takes advantage of the rich opportunities to strengthen himself in body and mind. The ambition to lead one's class is not, of itself, a high ambition...
...advantageous to the Annex it might be. But the fact that this great good fortune is denied to the Annex is no reason why no other fortune should fall to it. It is to be hoped that there will soon appear some wealthy person or persons who will bestow upon this really worthy institution, the Harvard Annex, some good and well equipped buildings and spacious grounds, which shall be at once modestly far from and conveniently near to the university. If it is desirable, and the writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher...