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Docents may be provided with individual rooms, and special apparatus may be purchased for their research if desired and approved. They may also be equipped and sent on scientific ex-peditions. They are expected during the year, to deliver a limited number of lectures on some special chapter of their departments but their time will be reserved for study and research a way best adapted to qualify them still more fully for academic advancement...
There may have been times in the past when the Advocate had some excuse for existence, but nothing in the last two numbers of that paper warrants anyone in wishing it to continue to live. The first editorial in the number which appeared December 13th, is the most puerile I have ever had the misfortune to read in any Harvard publication...
JOHN B. EMBICK.If a sufficient number of western men sign the book at Leavitt and Peirce's a considerable reduction will be made in the round trip tickets for the Christmas recess. Please sign your name and the place you wish to go. The book will be removed at one o'clock next Thursday...
...number of the Advocate is without exception the worst for several years. Not only are some of the articles without merit but several have grave faults, and the number as a whole has no redeeming features.- except its copious clippings from the Christian Union. The first editorial discusses the football question in a spirit hardly compatible with the principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought...
...verse of this number shows no marked originality, but is the best part of the issue. The election of Mr. T. G. Bremer, '92, as business editor is announced. The Advocate is brought to a close by a list of books received and the Brief. Several misprints mar the appearance of the paper...