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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Finance Club and the renewed activity of the Philosophical Club; and we hope to hear again of the Historical Society so much talked about last year. The long existence and the constant activity and success of the Natural History Society show the possibilities of any of these new societies when skilfully managed. Such societies have generally died because either the immediate members avoided assuming any responsibility, or there was a failure to transmit the interest to succeeding classes. The hearty interest and co-operation of instructors does much towards overcoming the latter difficulty, and the former can be overcome...
...Library to go for nothing. The system of reserving books, which has proved so successful and so useful to us all, would have to be abandoned if the practice our correspondent has exposed became common; it is therefore incumbent on all students to bring to light any new cases which they may discover. Besides, when books are taken out unregistered, there is no positive certainty that they will be returned...
...could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered to fix the race as early as six weeks, if need be, before the race at New London, it is difficult to see how this could have an injurious effect on the eight-oared race. The New York and Boston newspapers state, moreover, that it was voted to aid Mr. E. P. Livingston with influence and money if he personally challenges our champion sculler. This certainly...
...Packer Quarterly has an article on "A new kind of shopping" and a good deal to say about "fashion." O worldly Packer! Its articles are all bright and interesting. Why is it that the young ladies' papers all have such a simple and excellent style? Here is a line from the Packer's poem on the Beautiful...
ALLOW me to call attention to a new grievance in that fertile field of fault finding, the marking system. If an instructor is allowed to send warnings to students for cutting recitations in his elective, the privilege of voluntary recitations, for which the Junior class has to pay so dear, is practically abolished. Recitations are not really voluntary so long as there is a penalty of any sort for absence, and when an instructor, after finding a man absent for several recitations, sends him a notice that he is not likely to get through the course unless his attendance improves...