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...question frankly": is it not surprising that "A Senior," presumably having moved among us now for three years, should believe that he could pick his courses solely by consulting the University Catalogue? The undergraduate has additional means of becoming "informed beforehand concerning the nature of his courses": he may look over previous examination papers, he may talk with men who have taken the course in former years, and, in the case of English 2, he may attend the first lecture...
...attended. The next year we had 12 students in Andover and also taught 20 Harvard men. This year we are giving instruction to 22 Andover students and there are 20 Harvard men taking work under our Faculty. Such a ratio of increase, of course, cannot keep up, but we look for a steady growth. That indicates the wisdom of the removal from Andover, but we are also enjoying the benefits of a revival in religious interest among the young...
Undertaking such a building and making such an investment, of course, indicates that we anticipate continued growth. We look for a good increase next year, even if we do fall behind the large percent ratio of increase which we had this year over last. I may say that the trustees are much encouraged by the present outlook for greater enrollment, although the year is not yet advanced to the time when applications for instruction are most numerous. The policy of the Faculty is to accept men for their quality rather than to seek after mere quantity of students. We weigh...
...prizes usually stand in need of financial aid, this method affords the least embarrassing way of rewarding those who are the most deserving. Though this is true to a certain extent, the same result would be accomplished in a less bald way by a committee who should look into the needs of successful scholars, and in this way remove the cheapening effect of money prizes upon scholarship...
...often been remarked as strange that the oldest College in America should have so few customs surviving from tradition and it is true that when we look about us we can recognize few habits that have been imposed upon us by antiquity. One custom, one very antiquated custom, we still have, however, and it has very little to recommend its continuance save its antiquity. The custom referred to is the ringing of the College bell every morning at 7 o'clock...