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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Through the courtesy of the gentlemen who got up the petition to Mr. James Russell Lowell, we have the privilege of printing his letter in reply. It is with deep regret that we learn of Mr. Lowell's determination to deny our earnest request. However we must be reconciled to it, the more readily, as no one can read this letter without feeling that Mr. Russell himself was deeply touched by this appeal from the students and that it was to his own regret that he found himself unable to comply with their request...
...opinions vary widely. Of one thing, however, we may be sure. If either element of education be neglected in the undergraduate course, it is unlikely that the deficiency will ever be made good. The years immediately following graduation are devoted, in the vast majority of instances, to learning a profession or a business; and these interests should be shared with no others except by way of recreation. If, therefore, a young man begins the work of his life while still deficient in mental training, his mind will be trained by that work only in those parts which are actively used...
...with great pleasure that we learn of a valuable addition to the buildings of the University. In the spring, ground will be broken for another section of the museum of Comparative Zoology. The new section will be a continuation of the present west wing and will be used to accommodate the growing needs of the botanical department. It will contain laboratories for the study of both cryptogamic and phaenogamic botany. There will also be rooms for the exhibition of the economic and systematic collections already accumulated, and for which there is at present no adequate accommodation...
...sorry to learn that the freshman foot-ball team is still heavily in debt, in spite of the fact that the eleven acquitted itself so splendidly in the contest with Yale. One of the first principles that should be inculcated in freshmen classes here is that all debts honorably acquired in providing for the necessities of athletic teams should be paid ungrudgingly, especially when a man has worked so hard and faithfully in bringing victory to a class whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time...
...instructors would make it a point to teach a few of the students the observances of proper decorum in recitations. Those friends who begin to pack up their books and "grab" for their hats some three or four minutes before the close of the hour might learn a little forbearance if the instructor should do likewise and make a rush for the door even before he had completed the last sentence of his lecture. However this expedient might prove futile...