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...authorities to do this; how an especial officer should be appointed, with a fair salary, to attend exclusively to the interests of the commons; or how well they could avoid the errors into which we have fallen. Understand us, that we find no fault with those who have hitherto managed the hall, but we feel that unavoidable mistakes have happened, not been made, from the very nature of the circumstances, and we think it has been shown conclusively that students cannot manage a dining association of the size and importance of Memorial Hall. There is only one resource left...
...goes under the name of college humor has a still racier and sharper individuality if not so extended a vogue. We think few will deny that of all college journals the Lampoon has been and is the best representative and exponent of this peculiar humor. Its only considerable rival hitherto has been the Columbia Spectator, (although the Spectator differs so much in its scope from the Lampoon that it may perhaps deny that it is a rival of the latter,) and although it can undoubtedly be said without any undue exhibition of local pride that the Lampoon has far surpassed...
...distinctive merit lies in the great stimulative power of their teaching. In England there is, with less of this stimulus, perhaps more of finished scholarship and greater opportunities for an enjoyable social life. There are three sets of teachers in the English universities: (1) the professors, who have hitherto taken a part in the teaching more dignified than practically important, except in natural science, where they have had nearly all the work to do; (2) the tutors and lecturers, who bear the burden of practical work and give their instruction in connection with some college independent of the university proper...
...Hitherto it has been the general custom in the East to regard Western colleges with undisguised ridicule and contempt. They have been looked upon as laughable imitations, or, rather, travesties of the old established institutions of the East. It is true that many of these colleges have brought about this sentiment by the foolish ostentation with which they announced themselves "universities;" but notwithstanding this, it is an error to think that these provincial colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country...
...highest value. The single lecture of Prof. Bryce before the students, while he was here in Boston, was certainly highly appreciated by his hearers; and the course of the Natural History Society last term was of interest to all and of great value to many. Hitherto, generally the very ablest men have been secured; and this must be carefully looked to in all cases, if the success of the system is to be maintained. Indeed, the great variety and high value of the voluntary instruction of all sorts, offered by Harvard is one of her highest recommendations before the public...