Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...causes of sleep, and the amount necessary for men under varying circumstances, experience has shown that most of us are in better health when we have a sufficient quantity at regular times. The adaptability of the human system is very great, and is shown very markedly in the matter of sleep. The insane can sustain long continued conditions of sleeplessness. Every organ and tissue in the body must have rest, or they soon become worn out. The heart must make use of the intervals between beats to obtain necessary repose. The cause of sleep is the using up of potential...
Lack of space in these columns has prevented our mentioning before to-day the current number of the Lampoon. The present Lampoon editors have so evidently abandoned the sort of humor, both in illustration and reading matter, that used to appear in their columns, that we find ourselves wondering if the change is for the better, if the editors have shown good taste in departing from the peculiar college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads...
Once more the Conference Committee meets for the discussion of the subject of cribbing. We have done our best to awaken a general interest in this matter, for we believe it one of the important subjects in educational matters of the day. But our call for expressions of opinion has met with a very unsatisfactory response. One of our correspondents, in the CRIMSON for March 29 exclaims: "Why publish disquisitions in your columns on the evils of cribbing and the status of that art at Harvard? Why drag this disgusting subject to the light, and care fully analyze...
...general examination, so that many of them are at liberty a week or more before their more unfortunate brothers. But on the whole the document will be found as judiciously arranged as is possible under the circumstances, giving generally sufficient time between the examinations in allied groups, although this matter is not looked out for as carefully as it might...
...main with these views it would be wrong if the students at Harvard were to shut their eyes to the numerous faults and short-comings of the system as it now stands. About the only criticism of Mr. Brearley's which deserves very serious consideration, is in the matter of examinations. The fact that the students are examined "on courses and not on subjects" or branches of subjects, must be patent to everybody. A man who attends his courses at all regularly and keeps his eyes open can go into the examination and retail all that has been poured into...