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...Bloody Monday" of our day is, after all, a harmless affair enough, and but for a lamentable lack of self-control on the part of some of the participants in its rites, would hardly call for comment either condemnatory or otherwise...
...what is more, no reasons have appeared to give the least evidence of the unsuccessful operation of the elective system as thus extended; while the evidences of its unquestionable success are by no means few. Again, in many of the departments of study there have been numerous improvements, either from the addition of courses or from changes in instructors, or from more systematic and energetic work on the part of former instructors. Perhaps the English Department illustrates this improvement as well as any. Still the departments of French, German, Political Economy, and History should not go unmentioned. No department...
Hard students, especially those who spend almost all of their time on matter which pertains entirely to the courses they have in hand, are dubbed at all colleges either "grinds," "digs," or "grubs," and to be called such is not unusually considered a mark of flattery. The expressions for a bad recitation very at different colleges; "fizzle," "flunk," "clump," and "smash" are the most common. The contemptible act of a student who endeavors to ingratiate himself with an instructor by his seeming interest in lessons and officious civilities, now known as "toadying," was formerly called "fishing." The words "cram...
...winter term this year, and only ten seniors in all the Greek electives. In fact both senior and junior Greek electives there only enroll 33 men, about half of what Prof. Winans' junior Greek enrolls here. So senior and junior Latin has only 29 men, considerably less than either our senior or junior Latin...
...number of students who pass a portion of the loug vacation at Cambridge is increasing yearly. At first the only students who devoted the summer months to study at Harvard were those who elected the summer courses in chemistry, either for the purpose of doing up their work for the coming year, or because they desired to offer the work thus performed as a substitute for the chemistry courses required in the Medical School. Of these summer students, however, the larger number were students from other colleges, or persons not other-wise connected with the university. This, year, however...