Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Brown.- In order to secure better singing in the chapel, the President arranged for a double quartette to sit in front and lead the singing. But as this plan promised to interfere with the congregational singing, the matter was dropped...
...always seemed to us a wrong policy. If a man has done well, a knowledge of this fact encourages him to work so as to do as well on the Annuals; if he has done poorly, he should be informed, so that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which is largely taken by Seniors...
...colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self-styled "Universities" which are so numerous in this country have no right to their title until the new systems are introduced. At present they are not in advance of many of the schools of other countries...
...followed up. It is useless to propose plans to change or replace the club system. We intend showing, in a later issue, that two cups are already in the possession of the College, forming ample prizes for the spring and fall races; and propositions to buy new boats might better be postponed. The fault lies not with the system, but with its managers, upon whom we earnestly call to "brace...
After three years spent in rowing, riding, and travelling, there comes an examination, which requires a week or two of preparation; and then, having taken his degree, the student leaves the classic shades with a better education than the most unremitting toil would have obtained for him here. Whether this is the view which the writers in our papers take or not, I heartily join with them in the wish that Harvard may be able soon to call itself a true University...