Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours, and the student has still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required are in the library to be reserved, and as the library is open only during...
...student feels that he is compelled to spend a considerable amount of time in obtaining a piece of information practically useless, at the expense of more important work. Yet if this point of the work is not done, he is given a maximum of 75 per cent., no matter how well he may do the rest of the work. The importance of the course and the necessity of doing good work in it, are recognized by all. The energy and ability of the instructor is also appreciated. Those who have elected his course, in making this complaint would simply call...
...matter of landscape gardening Harvard certainly does not excel. Much as we prize the beauty of the yard as it is, we think that there is still great room for improvement. It is but a few days since the authorities in a well-meaning way spread a nasty mess of muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural...
...played in the foot-ball game last Tuesday, realized after the game that the gymnasium is sadly deficient in the apparatus for drying clothes. There are, to be sure, the steam pipes in the back of the lockers, but every one who has had any experience in the matter knows that clothes in the lockers never dry, no matter how long they remain there. Besides this there is one radiator in the bathroom. Probably it was not intended for a drying machine; but that is what it is used for, and it does its work well. One, however...
...pamphlet issued by the faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School contains a considerable amount of matter not without interest to the college at large. It appears from this document that the curriculum has been so changed that the opportunities for a thorough education in engineering, chemistry, and the other branches of science, now offered by the school are equal to those to be had at the leading scientific schools throughout the country. When it is considered that students in the Scientific School have free access to the library, and enjoy all the privileges of the university, and when we remember...