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...properly fill the vacant places on our teams; and even if they could, it would be better to secure men who can remain in training for four years, and give in future years that confidence to our Crew, Nine, and Eleven which only the presence of old athletes can impart. If '83 follows our advice about the election of class captains, and fit captains are backed by many hard trainers, the class will undoubtedly not only make a better record in her Freshman contests than '80 or '82, but will also reinforce the University teams. In studies, also, '83 must...
...whether good reading should be enforced in the recitations. Professor Child's elective in Shakespeare is made as instructive as his enviable reputation would lead one to expect. He teaches many things which those unfamiliar with the subject could not find out by themselves, and does his best to impart to the students his own evident interest and enthusiasm; but as he himself acknowledges, he takes no pains with the reading, which accordingly is weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable beyond description...
...that Seventy-Eight has done in thus firmly re-establishing Class Day, she deserves the thanks, not only of those connected with the College, but especially of those of the gentler sex who hope to experience on this most famous day at Harvard as much pleasure as they always impart...
...makes little difference if I read Lamb in full Russia, blue and gold, or the abominable yellow cover; in point of fact, one enjoys a novel or essay quite as much when the cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this. Good little boys in story-books open valuable volumes in quest of traditional dollar-bills between the leaves, but many a volume is never opened or even taken...
...criticism made here will not take issues with the new theory of instruction by cases. But lack of time and experience to test and impart it in such a masterly form, method, and application as we may hope to see the future produce, we believe should prevent its extensive or very general introduction at present...