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...Wendell will meet all junior sections, advanced and regular, to discuss the principles of "Exposition," in Sever 11, today...
JUNIOR THEMES.Mr. Wendell will meet all sections,-advanced and regular,-in Sever 11, on Tuesday, February 19, at 2 o'clock, to discuss the principles of exposition. Theme V. will be due on Thursday, Feb. 28. Subject: An exposition of some subject connected with the chief study of each student...
...restrictions into such matters of detail as e. g. to prohibit all contests with non-collegiate amateurs, and to insist upon regulating such a comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled. Certainly in these points of detail the resolutions are most open...
...Nevertheless it is true that every Harvard man who reads the above quotation must feel in some slight measure the force of the criticism implied therein. We do not mean to disparage the recent conference. We hope it is only the first of many more such meetings, called to discuss both other as well as similar subjects. It is evident that there is at present little to be done by the students in the matter. We can only await the outcome of the negotiations now in progress between the various college faculties and our own. We certainly hope that...
...classical groundwork of our mental life found in the Gymnasium is withdrawn from the pre-university course. This is, to be sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with friends connected with the physical and mathematical sciences, and I have found them almost without exception firm in the same conviction." The main point is very emphatically touched upon by the university faculty in their report of 1869. "In regard to the natural sciences, the most mutable...