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...Civil Courts, and the Supreme Court, and within a stone's throw are the United States district and Circuit Courts; to all these court-rooms the law students are admitted with members of the bar, and have rare opportunities to see practical application of the principles which they find in their books. The Law School library is said to be the best in the country, containing all the English and American reports...
...Rhoads, believes in allowing the students to regulate their own conduct, and as yet has drawn up no "rules and regulations" respecting their conduct, so that all exercises, including chapel, are voluntary. So far this arrangement has worked very well and the faculty now believe that they will not find it necessary to resort to the more customary, but less ideal methods of college government...
While most of the historical and literary clubs in college are about to furnish the students with interesting courses of lectures in their respective branches, we look in vain to find desirable activity among the members of the Philosophical Club. The excellence of this department in the college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...will be without effect. There is, however, one cause for which we willingly ask support, and we hope our words will receive the attention due them. The reading-room still lacks funds with which to meet its actual expenses. This institution seems an exotic, but surely it should find at Harvard its native soil. It is suited to Harvard's needs, and could be made invaluable. These possibilities seem destined never to be realized. Appeal after appeal has been made, with only partial success. We do not expect to arouse Harvard to its center on the question of a life...
Writers of sophomore themes will in future designate their themes not by their names, but by the numbers which they find written on the first theme...