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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...porch over the entrance, and a broad double flight of stone steps. Folding-doors admit the visitor to an entrance-hall which opens on the left to the hall, and on the right to the office, where the Curator can see every one that goes out or in. The main hall of the gymnasium is 119 feet long at its greatest length, and 81 feet at its greatest width. It is as long as the Memorial Dining-Hall, and considerably wider. On the right and left sides of this mammoth gymnasium, at a distance of 18 feet from the walls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW GYMNASIUM. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

...Were the Atlantic Main ZOLLNER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB CONCERT. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...teacher. In that capacity he is regarded by the students as competent and faithful, and his duties are performed in the most conscientious manner. But this does not prevent our condemnation of his system of marking, which we regard as absolutely wrong. Solid substantial instruction is the main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot affect the student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts of the committee to make all the arrangements satisfactory. The dinner will be served at 6 P. M. Joseph Healy, 35 Congress St., Boston; Godfrey Morse, 40 Water St., Boston; Arthur L. Ware, 67 Charles St., Boston; John T. Wheelwright, 890 Main St., Cambridge; Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden St., Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...finding. Further he says that our inference that part of his aim was to show that there was little toadyism in college was, as he thinks, intentionally wrong. We are glad that such was not his aim, and willingly withdraw our inference. The secret of how to refute our main proposition lies neither in personalities of the stump-speech sort, nor in a noise about trivial errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

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