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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose of, what you call "the machinery of the course," is not to increase but to diminish the expenditure of the students. It is a course requiring the use of many books, and students who cannot afford to provide themselves with a small library on the subject would find themselves handicapped. A pamphlet has, therefore, been prepared which contains, besides matter intended to be helpful for the special work of the course, a set of classified readings referring to several distinct groups of books. By the use of this system, in connection with the College and Evans Libraries, a student...
...columns of the various college publications. Such organizations have existed and it is claimed have flourished at other universities. Here at Harvard there are probably over fifty men who spend some time writing for publication. There is, it must be confessed, some doubt as to whether the men would find one another's society agreeable enough to make the social success of such a club possible...
...brief for the first forensic will be due Nov. 8, and will be returned Nov. 17. It must be rewritten and left, with the first forensic, in the box in Sever 10 by 5 p. m., Nov. 24. Students are urged to find topics for forensics in work connected with courses they are now taking or have recently taken. Suitable topics will be approved, if submitted to an instructor at a consultation hour...
...from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they frequented in life. The dead body was often carried away by a crooked or circuitous path so that the spirit might not find the way back. Fire, water and thorns were interposed between...
...baths constantly supplied with hot water until the last of November. Freshmen who are interested in rowing are urged to join at once so as to get as much practice as possible before the races. The boat house being now on the road to the football field men will find it a convenient place to stop for an hour's exercise and a good bath. The membership fee is $5; lockers, $1 extra. Tickets, good until July, 1895, may be obtained at Thurston's, or of the secretary...