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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...either assist zealous students in attaining an education, or it can undertake to educate all who choose to come to it. In the latter case the education can never be thorough, but it may be useful; in many cases more useful than an education in itself more perfect but less adapted to the needs of the person possessing it. But an institution established for this purpose must adapt its regulations to its ends. Men who come to college to be educated expect the college to do the greater part of the work. They wish an education rubbed into them...
...same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated on the final result. And, too, the steady, straightaway pull of four miles is a race in which chance is far less likely to enter than in a race where a stake-boat must be turned. In such a race, although the separate stakes and the buoying remove the possibility of two crews fouling one another, the danger of fouling the stake is not wanting...
...fair profit to the keeper of the boarding-house. If the price of food were raised to $5.50 or $6, those who are contented with or are obliged to put up with, the present grade of food, might form another association at the Divinity School Commons, perhaps, while the less in number at Memorial would be fully made up by attracting men who now pay $6 or $8 at private houses...
...interference with its continuance. This is not the first occasion on which the present Registrar has interfered officiously, when not officially, with matters that seem without the sphere of his action, and has manifested a spirit towards students that may in future render the legitimate exercise of his functions less agreeable than would be desirable. We certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous and extreme in his opinions and acts regarding undergraduates than any one of his superiors, we humbly but most vigorously protest. In the present...
...their examiners during the first week; but to the more scholarly and hard-working students, whose rank has a meaning for them, it is far from being a matter of indifference whether an inconvenient order of examinations is preceded by an early notification or is snapped upon them at less than a week's notice. Whatever else such tardiness shows, it certainly demonstrates that negligence and procrastination in college work are unhappily not monopolized by students...