Word: factful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THAT many persons who enjoy the privileges of our Reading-room resolutely refuse to subscribe seems to point to the fact that the Reading-room is considered as common property. The disappearance of Harper's Weekly and several other journals within the last few days shows that this erroneous opinion is growing alarmingly prevalent. This petty thieving must be stopped at once, and the Executive Committee are ready to "make it exceedingly unpleasant" for the offenders...
...regard to studies there is the usual amount of grumbling and dissatisfaction, and it is undoubtedly the fact that many of them look more attractive on the elective schedule than they...
...large proportion of those who elected this course did so with the expectation of pursuing it with a small division, and of enjoying the greater amount of personal intercourse with the instructor which results. With any this advantage is one of large influence. Is it not, in fact, one of the faults in our present system, that in those studies which are most necessary to even a respectable education, while most agreeable to the tastes of the average student, the members of a division are so numerous that it is impossible for any individual to receive more than the most...
...association seems to have been chiefly due to the lethargy of last year's administration; and with the election of the present board of officers, the association seemed to take a new lease of life, and the evil day of dissolution was averted, for a time at least. The fact then came to light that of last year's Freshmen only thirty had become members; and these last really did not seem to enjoy any privileges from which the rest of the class were debarred...
...Could the thousand young men now studying at Cambridge be placed in business or other occupation, apart from old friends and old restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined...