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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to ask, now that there have been so many complaints about the library, why the gas over the gymnasium step cannot be lit before dark. It is a great inconvenience to have to feel one's way down the steps, and moreover accidents are likely to happen. There are no gas pipes to be laid as in the case of the library. The lights are already there, and it would cost but little to pay for the extra amount of gas consumed, and would save a great amount of grumbling on the part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1887 | See Source »

...Cambridge people because crew men are in the habit of taking their afternoon runs in other streets than North avenue. It has always been the custom for the crews to run on North avenue, and Cambridge people, knowing this, can avoid encountering the men if they wish. But it cannot be very pleasant for these long-suffering people to have some fifteen or twenty men come thundering along behind them on any of the other streets of Cambridge; especially as it is now the fashion to wear strictly gymnasium costumes regardless of appearances. We have rights, but so have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1887 | See Source »

...does not pretend "to represent Harvard thought": he simply writes of his experiences at Harvard and of such Harvard customs and institutions as will, in his estimation, interest his friends at Andover. It is difficult to find either lunacy or vicious mindedness in such a course; and further, I cannot see what difference it would make in anyone's belief whether he used his true name or an assumed one. A FRIEND OF "PELLIPARIUS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

While Prof. Royce cannot return to work on Friday, he hopes without fail to be present at all his lectures on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

...functions of teacher and professor cannot be permanently separated. To be sure, in Germany, the two offices have been differentiated by the gymnasium and the university: but, in the latter, in recent times, there is a manifest return to old-fashioned tutorial methods in the institutions of the so-called Seminar, where professor and student are once more brought to gather as master and pupil. Harvard College has never departed altogether from the scholastic system upon which the institution was founded. In the maintenance of the classics, the lecture-system, tutors, examinations and recitations, as well as of religious exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of History at Harvard. | 12/15/1887 | See Source »

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