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...note with pleasure the recent announcement that the Musical Clubs have arranged to give an undergraduate concert in Sanders Theatre on the evening preceding the Yale baseball game. Often in the past we have heard the criticism that Harvard undergraduates too rarely have an opportunity to hear their own musical organizations. Without passing judgment on the justice of this criticism, we do feel that the arrangements and date for the coming concert are especially fortunate. Many Seniors will surely be glad of this opportunity to entertain their families and friends who come to Cambridge to attend the festivities of Class...
Last day for Juniors to make application to have degree taken in 1907 recorded "as of 1908" in the Quinquennial Catalogue. (See 1906-07 Catalogue, p. 391, foot-note...
...Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that...
Last day for Juniors to make application to have degree taken in 1907 recorded "as of 1908" in the Quinquennial Catalogue. (See 1906-07 Catalogue, p. 391, foot-note...
...editorial on "The Young Instructor" is the one jarring note in the number. Conched in extravagant language and containing many obvious exaggerations, it is intended, ostensibly, as a protest against some aspects of the system of employing a large number of young instructors and assistants to correct themes and to supplement the instruction given by lectures in large courses. The protest is directed especially against the employment for such work of men just graduated from college, who, it is agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely...