Word: post
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SHALER will give any required information concerning Nat. Hist. 1 and 4, the Post-Graduate courses in Physical Geology, the Post-Graduate courses in Palaeontology, and the summer school of Geology in his lecture-room in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (northeast corner), on Wednesday the 20th; also on Wednesday the 27th, at 11 A. M. - Bulletin Board...
Bicycle Race. - It is to be hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...
...glad to see, by the President's Report, that an effort is being made to increase the advantages of a post-graduate course. Many students feel a desire to spend a year or two in study here after they have finished their college course, and to give their time either to studies they have been unable to pursue before, or to some subject which they make a specialty. To the former class the college electives offer a good field for work, and they can push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented...
...presence of the letter-box in front of University is not due to the influence of the College Press on the post-office officials, the Advocate to the contrary notwithstanding. A member of '79 suggested to a friend who is connected with the Boston Post-Office the want that the students felt of a letter-box in the Yard. The one now in use is the result...
...University, all departments have the same term, vacation, recesses, and holidays, - a fact which tends to make the various departments "feel themselves to be co-ordinate members of one body, - the University." The Report also discusses the cost of education at Harvard, the change of stewards at Memorial Hall, post-graduate instruction, voluntary recitations, the new requirements for admission, and other matters of importance. An extended notice of the Report will be found in another column...