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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As there is a rule that no coal shall be delivered in the college yard after half-past eleven in the morning, why is it that loads are often empted in the basement of University during the afternoon...
...same for the continuation of explorations under his direction. The curator, in presenting his report, stated that he had also received $775 for special purposes, of which $550 were for Miss Fletcher's researches among the Indians. Twenty-five free lectures were given at the museum during the past year. Numerous gifts were made to the library, and the additions to the museum had been larger than in any preceding year, the large increase being chiefly due to the special explorations made either by the curator or under his immediate direction through the liberality of patrons of American research...
...resolutions voiced the sentiment of the college in regarding the faculty's action as inconsistent with their own statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will...
...occurred at 181 and 183 Washington street, Boston, at half-past 6 last evening...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The authorities of the library have always, and especially during the past year, been courteous and prompt in adopting suggestions of the students in the interest of improvement. I should like to propose one more improvement, and that is, that instead of selecting new books without reference to the students, the authorities allow each man in the university to suggest one book, or series of book, to be purchased when next any books are added to the library. As the students are most interested in the selection of their reading material there can be no objection...