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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject because they are thoroughly interested, their old position as natural and hereditary enemies is lost sight of, and both the quantity and the quality of the work show the advantages of harmony and enthusiasm. There are no laggards to hold back the rest, while the very men whose lack of comprehension of a subject would under the required system, tend to laziness and failure are often enthusiastic and successful students in the department where their talents take them. Another great advantage is that useless courses or incompetent instructors are left in solitary state. In this way the instruction...
...regret to learn that the Exeter boat club has been obliged to cancel its agreement to purchase boats of Harvard owing to lack of funds...
...made of the courts than has been the case hitherto. The rules allow any member of the association to use a court provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it. Believing that the following rules will be a great improvement on the present lack of system and are as good as can at present be devised, the Tennis Association ask all tennis players to second their endeavor to introduce some system into the management of the tennis courts...
...censured because we do not take interest enough to demand electives in American history. It cannot be denied that every young American should have more than a school knowledge of his country's history. To disregard it shows a want of pride in our native land and a lack of appreciation of, our ancestors whose trials and labors made us what...
...country, and recent years have done much to add to our stock of knowledge. The course was conducted a few years ago by Mr. Lodge, one of the most prominent students of the subject, but was given up. One of the reasons for its discontinuance was a lack of students. But the same arguments that favor the maintenance of departments in Semitic languages obtain in the case of such a course. The course in American history as at present conducted gives at best but a hasty sketch of our history. The immense popularity of this course well warrants...