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That the gymnasium is in many ways the best equipped of any college gymnasium in this country, may be true enough, but like the best of everything, there is plenty of room for improvement. Harvard is not a whit behind the age in this respect. The shower-baths, which are of greater necessity and utility than any other thing connected with the gymnasium, are either very badly managed or else there is a flaw in the construction of the pipes bringing in the hot and cold water supply. Every day it takes ten or fifteen minutes to regulate the temperature...
...side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys, the founding of new schools of learning in intimate connection with the main body of the college, all of these have contributed to give the right to the broader title of university. Surely nothing can be more indicative of the healthy demand for a liberal education...
...study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students were required to speak Latin in the class-rooms and in the college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College. The rule was: "When a scholar is able to understand Tully (Cicero) or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo ut aunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigm's of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." Such classical preparation was given...
...questions in an hour examination are often totally different from those given later. As to the fact of these examinations "being excellent tests to let a man see whether he has worked too much or too little," it seems to me that a man is not at all likely to overwork himself in a course, and if a man is going to shirk work an examination which "counts very little" is not going to produce much effect. These "hours" are too much like the system of marking the recitations, and when four at least are set for the weeks before...
...Such is the Dentscher Verein. Every fortnight there is a meeting of the society, and on each occasion a paper on some literary subject is real by one of the members. Political matters have been labored up to the present time, and all discussions have been limited to men like Goethe and Faust in preference to Bismark and Von Moitke...