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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In reading over the University Calendar for the current week, I was somewhat surprised, and disappointed to notice that the Geological and Mathematical seminars are to be held on the same afternoon, and at the same hour. I have come to Harvard to obtain the utmost benefit possible from its resources, not only in the regular elective work, but also in the extraneous lectures and seminars,- hence it naturally annoys me to be debarred from attending any such exercise because of a conflict with some other exercise at which I am equally desirous of being present...
...retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged to be present at prayers 576 times, in order to obtain the coveted degree. Is the university, after all, moving forward...
...member of the Art Club who wishes a ticket to the exhibition of the Paint and Clay Club. can obtain one by calling...
...time order of things, his progress to knowledge will be beset with difficulties of a financial nature. But under the new system no such hindrance exists. "Nous avons change tout cela, says Cornell, "A man may come to our college, poor, but deserving. What shall he do to obtain the necessaries of student life? Simply this, he may enter the feather-weight sparring, and win an easy chair; in the middle-weight he may secure a clock; in the heavy weight he can easily obtain a silk umbrella; by winning the horizontal bar, and the flying rings, he may stock...
...recent date contains the following: "A great change affecting the army, is announced, which has unusual importance to members of the university who may contemplate a military career. Hitherto, Latin and Greek have been included among the voluntary subjects of the final examination by which it was possible to obtain extra marks and thereby compensate for deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state. Classics, however...