Word: procession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the annex will meet at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Pach's studio to be photographed. The remainder of the afternoon, we understand, has been reserved for the process and we publish this notice that every student may have fair warning. Any Harvard man entering the premises during the time specified will do so at his peril...
...occasion has called forth some very bitter reflections from our esteemed contemporary. It cries: "The student opinion that can countenance the disgraceful and unmanly words and actions that have come to be characteristic of a college election, is surely diseased and vitiated, and needs most emphatically some cleansing process. Have we come to such a pass that a man's reputation and character may be sacrificed upon the altar of student ambition, or to satisfy the spewing wrath of some vituperative, vindictive caucus monger...
...Mathematics, of course offers temptation to cramming; and that very much of this is done is not denied; but this is not regarded as wholly evil even by so competent a judge as the late Professor Jevons. Nevertheless many are unable to see much that is good in the process. The impulse, however, which is given to a large and wise use of the library, by the lecture system, is plainly to be seen and is of no small value. The mid-year and final examinations determine the student's rank. Attendance upon recitations is voluntary, but is more regular...
...volumes in the "College Series of Greek Authors" are expected to appear in the next few months. Prof. Humphreys' edition of the "Clouds of Aristophines" is now in the process of electrotyping. This edition is based on the well known German edition of Kock. The "Clouds" will be followed by Sophocles "Antigone" based on the edition of Wolff. The "Antigone" is to be edited by Prof. D'Ooge, of Ann Arbor. The object of this series which is being issued under the joint editorship of Prof. J. W. White of Harvard and Prof. Packard of Yale, is to furnish...
...would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly be disputed. It was said a good many years ago of a legal examination that not one of the examiners could have passed it. Strong in his own subject, each would have failed in one of the others. Might not a hint be taken...