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...formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
...class meeting was called for 7.30 last evening, but so great was the anxiety of the upper classes to assist the new comers in putting their class machinery in motion that Boylston Hall was packed to overflowing full fifteen minutes before the hour set. The meeting remained in a chaotic state for some minutes, but finally Mr. W. T. Kimball took the chair, and called for order. Order (?) having been obtained, the class proceeded to elect a president, and amid confusion unspeakable it was discovered that Mr. Perry T. Trafford, of Exeter, had been unanimously chosen for that office...
...result of attempting to divide the classes into companies or of making any pretence of marching in military style. It is a certainty, however, that, as the evening progresses the maneuvers will become more and more complicated, so that the final condition of the column will be as chaotic as the most conservative could wish. At any rate, let us all take hold with a will, irrespective of our political creeds, and make this demonstration a complete success. It is the last chance most of us will have of marching in the Harvard brigade, and we have but ourselves...
...passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose to the college through our columns and will endeavor to further any plaus which may suggest remedies for the present chaotic state into which the subject of faculty supervision seems to have fallen just at present...
...Broad education" and "specialism" are both good in their respective ways: without the former, the world would be a chaotic mass of egotism; without the latter, progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...