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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Jarvis Fields. You must always be able to tell what condition they are in. The little yellow building between them is the hospital. All new arrivals from foreign lands are kept there in quarantine for a time. The beautiful brown building on the left is occupied by a number of college societies, which are located near the hospital, so that men who are injured by initiations may be cared for at once. You will appreciate this advantage when you come to be initiated into the Pierian Sodality...
...each meal, and thus enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully. One breakfast, for instance, might be from seven o'clock until a quarter of eight, and the second breakfast from eight...
...hour, five o'clock in the afternoon, for taking out reference-books, is inconvenient to a large number of students, especially to those who exercise from four until half-past five, since they are compelled either to give up a part of their exercise or to deprive themselves of the use of reference-books in the evening. If the hour were changed from five to four, probably the convenience of the largest number would be met; for where two persons wish to refer to the same book at the same time, the first who comes will get it, whether...
...number of applications for board at Memorial has been so large this year that many have been obliged to leave the hall on account of not being able to obtain permanent seats. At the beginning of the term there were as many as seventy men who were unable to obtain seats, and at the present time there are between twenty and thirty who are obliged to wait for seats to be vacated by others before being able to take their meals. It is, of course, obvious that it is very desirable for the association to raise its membership...
DURING the months of July and August a discussion was carried on in the Nation in regard to the Harvard Divinity School, which attracted much attention, and called forth a number of letters on each side. The main question at issue was, whether the Divinity School was an unsectarian institution or not. As this is a question which has important bearings on the whole character of the University, a short resume of some of the arguments put forward on each side is given below...