Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been prepared for an additional section of the great museum to give increased accommodation to the departments of geology and geography. Another section will include the botanical laboratories and a botanical museum, the materials for which have been accumulating for several years. These two buildings will form the central part of the front of the projected University Museum, of which the Museum of Comparative Zoology now forms the northern wing, while the Peabody Museum stands at the eastern extremity of the southern wing. Another large lecture room will also be provided, and proper consideration for the feelings of the students...
...when we come to examine the way in which Harvard has carried out its purpose we confess to a good deal of disappointment. The list of required books in this department and the subjects selected for examination papers indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who have made the selections and a curious tendency to run in ruts...
...select the subjects for your entrance examinations in English literature. Is there none in all the list who is worthy of such recognition by a leading American college, or is it the deliberate judgment of Harvard College that acquaintance with American literature is wholly unnecessary and valueless as a part of the education of American...
...publish in another place a clipping taken from an editorial on "English at Harvard" in the New York Commercial Advertiser. The writer complains that the requirements for admission in English "indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who made the selections and a curious tendency to run in ruts." This is clearly the opinion of a man who blindly judges from the Exeter or alone. Every English author could not be represented in the requirements for obvious reasons. And it has seemed best to "those who made the selections" to choose authors who are more...
...Exter nine, he will do credit to his class. All the men are at present exercising in a body. They run a short distance every day, besides doing general gymnasium work, using chest-weights, dumb-bells and Indian clubs. Until very recently there was a disposition on the part of the upper-classmen to monopolize the cage, but it is expected arrangements will soon be made to secure it at certain hours for batting practice. In addition to this the men will practice throwing in Lincoln Rink. In comparing the respective merits of the Yale freshman candidates and Harvard candidates...