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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...portion of the second half year in prescribed Rhetoric is given up to lectures on standard authors. The list of authors is exceedingly good, and a study of the prescribed books would be of great interest. But we cannot but think that the list ought to be modified and changed from time to time. Moreover, the list as it stands is only a sample of what might be done in this direction. Many great writers whose works are not studied in the regular literary courses are not found in this list. If the list could be radically different for three...
...portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised, the society placed on a firm basis with an assured capital would, in all probability, become permanent, ought to prompt more men to add to the voluntary subscription list, that they may reap the benefits of co-operation in future years. Selfish motives alone ought to be inducement enough to more than make up the small sum now needed, but without which the society cannot hope to continue in its present sphere of usefulness...
...number of books which have been published by Harvard instructors during the last few months, is rather remarkable. We have before us a list comprising books by Profs. Palmer, Childs, Lanman, Shaler, Trowbridge, Laughlin, Dr. Royce, and Messers Preble and Parker. Dr. Royce, Mr. Wendell and Dr. Taussig, each have, we understand, a book in preparation. Apart from the natural pride we feel in seeing these gentlemen appear in print, we are gratified over this literary activity because of the practical benefits we expect will accrue therefrom to Harvard. It is rightly the constant end and aim of this university...
...officer of the institution on the entry of each importation, comprising one or more of such books, as the case may be. This is deemed to be unnecessarily burdensome, and not requisite for the protection of the revenue, and it is therefore prescribed that in such case, if a list of the books and publications comprised in one order, accompanied with the requisite oath of the officer of the institution, is filed in the office of the collector before or with the entry of the first installment, and an affidavit is made by the importing agent on each subsequent entry...
Instead of issuing a supplementary list of topics, it is thought best that anyone who wishes to choose for thesis or final examination a topic not in the pamphlet, should first get the advice of an instructor who has special acquaintance with the topic chosen, and should then bring or mail to the forensic instructor a written recommendation from this adviser, declaring the topic a suitable one for the announced purposes of the forensic work. The forensic instructor may then at his pleasure approve the chosen topic as a substitute for any in the pamphlet...