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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead...
...elected any of the higher courses in mathematics is a discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except the elementary courses might as well...
...MEETING of the Boat Club was held last evening in Holden Chapel. The attendance was not large, and the exercises were marked by the usual unwillingness to give public expression to individual opinion on matters where it is most needed and most sought...
...muscle. As long as our men keep up their constant practice and good discipline, they need never fear their opponents on the score of size; but as soon as they stop their practice, they must look for trouble. To-day they are to play against McGill, and we give them our best wishes for their success...
THIS, too, is but one of a series of inventions in our honor; we give two more examples...