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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class last year shows how inaccurately students are likely to be informed about college discipline. Indeed, the field of misconception is not narrowed to the results of discipline, but extends over all the methods. The great majority of students have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence...
...Dean of the School the students were bound to him by ties of personal friendship and the University was often indebted to him for helpful words in the various religious services at Appleton Chapel. It is to be hoped that the same relations of mutual interest and support may exist between Dr. Hodges and the University and we bespeak for him at this his first service at the chapel a large attendance on the part of the students...
...PRESCOTT'S SPEECH.Henry Lee Prescott was the first speaker for Harvard. He said that no contention was made that corruption did not exist in parties, but the question was how much it was the duty of each man to free the party from corruption...
...conferences that now exist in several departments of the college are the natural result of the methods of study at Harvard, especially among the more advanced students. They are voluntary organizations of instructors and students that meet from time to time, usually at definite intervals, for the purpose of bringing together the men in any branch of study, so that they may easily compare notes. The work done in this way does not count towards a degree. The work is entirely voluntary and is not intended to take much extra time...
Another piece which will appeal to many is "Student Diet at Harvard," by R. W. Greenleaf '77, who has made a careful investigation of his subject. After detailed information about more methods of boarding than would be generally supposed to exist in Cambridge, he offers as a means for meeting the present needs of the college, the plan of a large central kitchen supplying many club tables, each, perhaps, with a local sub-kitchen as an annex to the main one; the whole to be under the control of the college...