Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first floor or the library have been much over-crowded, and old authors and editions are being gradually sorted out and carried to the second floor. Freshmen and sophomores have been put on an equality with juniors, as far as the library is concerned, and may henceforth draw out three books at a time, instead of two, as formerly. Books are now for the first time subject to renewal at the end of two weeks. The restrictions on the circulation of books are still, however, greater than at Harvard...
...carried into effect; but his suggestion "that freshman intercollegiate contests should be discontinued" seems to have been made without regard for the opinions of those who have most thoroughly investigated the subject. Without intercollegiate contests the freshman teams would fall to the rank of other class teams, which draw out but a few men and give these only a slight amount of irregular practice. It would be doubtful, in fact, whether class teams could be maintained at all without the stimulus of a hard-working freshman team in need of practice and encouragement; but even if they were, the best...
Life at Amherst is so entirely different from life at Harvard that it is difficult to draw a comparison between the two colleges. Amherst men live under the restraint of faculty regulations so numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks...
...club of Harvard. Mr. Henry Chalfant, '90, was appointed chairman, and it was decided to form a club similar to the Andover and Exeter clubs. C. S. Mathews, '90' I. N. P. Stokes, '91, F. O. Watriss. '92, and R. C. Bowler, '93, were appointed a committee to draw up a constitution which will be submitted to the club at a future meeting...