Word: find
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University Calendar of this week, of a lecture on the Harvard Library, and the methods of using it, Absurd as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that many freshmen fail to make use of their library privileges, simply through a reluctance to make the enquiries necessary to find out the system on which books are to be drawn. After one has thoroughly learned the steps which must be taken to secure books, he is still often hampered by a certain unfamiliarity with the card catalogue system. Now, however, that a lecture is to be given with the sole intention...
...which is now going on in the meetings of the faculty. That a fight would soon be made by the socalled opponents of Greek has been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number of students to Harvard is most probable, and in this way at least, the change will...
...places on the committee. In this way not only would scholarship be represented, but the services of men of marked ability would be secured; for if any one will take the trouble to glance over the list of those who have led their classes during past years, he will find the names of some of the finest men who have ever been graduated from an institution of learning. Let the undergraduate look at the men who have taken the highest rank within his short memory, and he will be convinced of this. Scholarship has none too much recognition at Harvard...
...correspondent yesterday, who felt compelled to protest against a statement made in our recent article on "Athletics at Athens," that reliance cannot always be placed on the athletic records of Herodotus. We are unable, at present, to deny the accuracy of the particular record, but, being unable to find it credited in the "Clipper Almanac," we are not disposed to insist upon its acceptance...
...building are the library and reading-room. Here are files of the many college exchanges, and the Harvard man is pleased to find that the Lampoon, Advocate and CRIMSON, are well thumbed...