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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book the suggestions for remembering names would be practically valuable. If on introduction the name were carefully repeated aloud, there would be no difficulty in remembering it. Also the chapter on "How to Learn a New Language," might really benefit a student if he observed its rules...
...picked team from the Shooting Club visited Dedham Saturday afternoon and administered another defeat to their old antagonists, the Dedham Gun Club. The cold and the dazzling sunlight on the snow made good shooting almost an impossibility. The shooting was very even during the first two rounds. At the end of the first Dedham led by one point, and at the close of the second the score was exactly even. Harvard then made a great brace, and in the third and fourth rounds succeeded in scoring eighteen points more than their opponents. The total score was: Harvard, 64; Dedham...
...complaint made that a senior is unable to secure a certain room which he desires for Class-day revives a discussion which each year sees renewed. In the present case, while we cannot encourage so aggressive a method of reaching the desired end, we see an example of what without doubt is now causing more trouble than may appear. The day has been invariably marked ??? general courtesy upon the part of the underclassmen, and we are loth to think that in any case, tact and gentle-manly courtesy will not procure what is desired. The matter, however, in each case...
...recitation rooms were well filled yesterday, considering that our long vacation had but just come to an end...
...worthy men who uphold the compulsory system undoubtedly long to bring into the church students who are out of it, and they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion...