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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Europe before its next meeting. He hoped that steps would be taken to make the valuable and interesting meetings of the association accessible to the general public, and to print reports of them in some scientific journal. He thought it desirable also that verbal and impromptu reports be more often made, in addition to the papers read, and "the well known American bashfulness" thus overcome...
...practice of reserving books in the library, which has been so generally adopted, is admitted by all to be an excellent one. It can, however, be carried too far. Often all the copies of a work are reserved by different instructors for the students pursuing their courses, and it is thus impossible to consult this work during library hours except by attendance in the reading room, which is often very inconvenient. When the library contains but two copies of a book, arrangements ought to be made to prevent the reservation of both of these copies, so that one of them...
Football, as is ought to be pursued, is a healthy and invigorating exercise; but experience of the past has abundantly shown that the great Inter-Collegiate games fall little short of being prize fights. Accidents frequently occur, often serious; and ill feeling is engendered between colleges.[Argo...
...calling attention to the important bearing of the dormitory system on the social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke, the average is from one hundred...
...shortly take on our board some men from the freshman class. But we cannot do this unless more men try for the position. The contributions received thus far have not been numerous, in fact have been decidedly few. Only a small number of men have written, and these not often. Such a state of affairs is all wrong. A college paper is as representative a part of a college as any of its athletic teams, and deserves just as much support. It is as much the duty of those men who can write to come forward and do their share...