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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time of the election which will follow the heated canvass of this fall, many students will seriously regret their inability to cast a vote for what they consider the best cause. Those whose distant homes do not permit them to vote there may have often conjectured as to the nature of the restrictions on their voting here. Upon inquiry we were informed by the city clerk of Cambridge that a decision had been given by the Supreme Court that persons residing in Campridge for purposes of education and dependent for support upon parents or friends in another district...
...temporary expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning...
...curriculum of study while compulsory is equal to any which could be pursued by any one student at Harvard, and the teaching is of an exceptionally high standard. Many pretty college stories are told by the students to their visitors and none more often than that one referring to the great popularity of the present president. It was once asked if Wellesley was denominational. Yes, was the answer, the students are Roman Catholics. What, Roman Catholics? Yes, they worship the virgin...
...this institution The advantages of such a room are obvious and are well shown by the number of men who frequent the rooms. It is difficult, however, to pay the current expenses and this method is taken to increase, as far as possible, the receipts. The files are often in themselves very valuable, and should command a good price. We hope the sale will meet with the success which it deserves...
...often hear criticisms made not only upon Harvard, but upon other universities and colleges of the country that the training which is offered is far from being practical enough, -that in situations like the Institute of Technology do more real good than any number of colleges. It will be found, however, that most of these objections come form persons who possess a very limited idea of the true meaning of practical. To them the word practical is nearly synonymous with technical. The word should be taken in a broader sence than this. Any study is more or less practical...