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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main object of all our examinations is to test individual proficiency with sufficient definiteness to enable the university to bestow its degrees and honors. Any such testing, however, must evidently be based on the character of individual work; otherwise it is not merely unjust, but it is a farce, pretending to represent what it really ignores. Now the character of individual work at Harvard varies with every man, and is resolvable only into the nature of the several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method...
...humanity and half a ton, more or less, of yet-to-be-developed music. The passengers were the members of the "Pierian Sodality and Harvard Glee Club," billed to appear in a concert at Portland. The street-cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never before dreamed of. The report along the line that a menagerie had "broken loose" will give a hint...
...improbable that the gymnasium authorities appreciate how cold the main hall of the building is. To one going from the dressing rooms, which are generally very comfortable, into the hall there is a surprising and disagreeable change. The steam has not, we think it is safe to say, been turned on in that place this season, though there have been several days cold enough to warrant such action. On behalf of scores of shivering students, we ask that the matter may be attended to at once and further discomfort avoided...
...mails at the Cambridge Post Office are as follows: Mails arrive, a.m., 6.40, 10.25, 10.55; p.m., 12.25, 2.25, 4.45, 7.10. Mails close, a.m., 6.30, *8.30, 10.15, 10.45, *11.30; p.m., 12.15, 2.15, 4.45, 7, *8, *12. Starred mails are messenger mails, and are collected from the boxes on Harvard and Main streets as the carriers go into Boston. Other mails start from the office...
Considering these circumstances, for the benefit of this class of students, could not one of our professors be persuaded to give one or more elementary lectures embracing the main arguments on both sides of the discussion, and considering briefly the position of England and America relative to the question. Such lectures could not fail to be popular, and would give many of the amateur economists in college an opportunity to study the logical grounds upon which Harvard, at least, stands as an advocate of Free Trade...