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...enough to call for such an extension, and increased advantage and popularity would certainly attend such a measure. It is to be hoped that some favorable action of this kind may be taken by the faculty for next year. The importance of the course calls renewed attention to the need of a similar one in the French department, where little or no provision is made for exercise in composition, although the need of it is great and urgent. We enjoy admirable advantages at Harvard for the study of French literature and for translation, but in the matter of French composition...
...question of the desirability of steam-heat for dwellings in the outer world, there is almost no doubt at all. Steam is fast coming to supercede all other methods of heating; and, if a practically scientific method of steam-heating were adopted for Harvard's dormitories, there need be no occurrence of the disagreeable symptoms of leakage and noise. Moreover, the pleasant appearance and advantages for ventilation of open fire-places need not be lost. There would be no occasion for removing them from the buildings...
...president of Dartmouth College caught one of the students helping himself to wood from the presidential pile. 'Young man,' saith the venerable officer, 'what authority have you for taking away that wood?' To which the youthful rogue, mindful of his Latin syntax, replied, 'Opus and Usus, signifying 'need,' require the 'Ablative.' 'Take it, my son, take it,' said the old man; 'but when you have need again come to me and I will give you better authority than that...
...society. It appears from the catalogue (which makes no account of the number of students who have entered the Scientific School since October) that the Scientific is numerically as strong as either the Divinity or the Theological schools. It seems to me that the Cooperative Society will need help from every available source, and that it failed to display foresight when it repelled the cooperation of a considerable institution, which is now making a most rapid growth...
JUNIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for Third Forensic: Does the possession of a good memory afford any indication of the presence or absence of other mental powers? Is there a need of reform in the civil service of the United States?- [The first three subjects of Third Senior Forensic may be taken by Juniors.] Due from sections 1 and 2 today; from sections 3 and 4, March...