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...students. The commonly accepted opinion that mental labor, if at all severe or long continued, is prejudicial to health, is here refuted by statistics derived from various sources. In one case, seven hundred and four returns made, it was found that seventy-eight per cent of the women graduates heard from, were in good health. Upon entering college, the health of twenty per cent was below par. After graduation, impaired health was found in only seventeen per cent, showing that the physical condition of the student became improved under the restrictions and requirements of college life...
...given in Sanders Theatre last evening. While the aim of the symphony concerts is to give the best music, there are few minds, even in Cambridge, capable of thoroughly appreciating three such works as Schubert's Unfinished and Beethoven's Heroic Symphonies, and St. Saen's concerto, when heard one directly after the other. Whatever reasons might be urged in defence of this course in Boston, where the concerts may be considered as an educational series, are futile here. Where they are so few and have such a long interval between them. We hope, therefore, that the next programme will...
...Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins, have discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this expression of student opinion, the need of a change will be felt more strongly in the faculty...
Much well-grounded complaint is heard in regard to the amount of work required in History 13. This course, in previous years, has been noted as unduly hard and exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours...
This is the season of the year in which the one hour examination inflicts its terrors on the student; and a strong cry of protest is heard from certain quarters. Disagreeable as it may be to some, the one hour examination is very useful in necessitating a thorough review of a subject and compelling the student to acquire a tolerably thorough knowledge of one branch of his study before proceeding to the consideration of another, and for that reason it does the student a real benefit. As no time is more convenient for study than the present...