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...students. The faculty, however, instead of making the recess longer than usual, have shortened it to one day. Their meaning probably is that, while the students complained because the journey to and from home consumed in most cases the whole time granted, it ought not to be a great hardship to spend the day in Cambridge. [Harvard Correspondent of N. Y. Post...
...could today supply a better table at from $4.00 to $4.50 than can now be found elsewhere in Cambridge. 3. That, as hundreds of men in college depend on the hall to protect them from the impositions of boarding house keepers, its closing will cause great inconvenience and hardship, since it will be the signal for an immediate rise in prices throughout Cambridge...
...whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town outside the college walls. Students are rigorously restrained from frequenting public houses and saloons; this hardship, however, is mitigated by the privilege of obtaining at cost from the college stores as much wine or spirits as is desired. After all allowances are made for debaucheries in other towns, there are good grounds for believing that the moral character of Oxford is exceptionally high...
THERE has been a great deal of complaint lately from those who have been prevented from taking some of the more popular elective courses, and, it seems to us, not without good reason. Without dwelling on the hardship of this exclusion in individual instances, or referring to any particular courses, we wish to protest against the principle of preventing anybody from taking a course which is put down in the elective pamphlet as open to him. If the number in some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what...
...stated in the last Advocate that all Sophomores and some twenty-five Juniors had been excluded from Philosophy 6. In the case of Sophomores this is not such a hardship, as they have still two years more in which to take the two courses, if they desire to do so; but it seems to me that it is an act of injustice to prevent any Junior from electing it. It is acknowledged that this course is one of the most important that is given, and it is certainly very hard to have to put it off until the Senior year...