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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...street car literature - we refer to such meaning proverbs as "Soapine did it" - might necessitate even the closing of the college. In view of these facts we sincerely hope that the conductors and drivers of the Cambridge tramways will take serious thought before they strike and interrupt the progress of the "oldest, largest and grandest university in America...
...most encouraging signs for the progress of this University is the growing use of the Library. It may be well enough to show that we have more students than any other college, that we have the ablest professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching...
...best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information...
...proof of the interest taken by the students in the affairs of the University. We doubt if in any former year the report has been as generally circulated in the college as at the present time. It is certainly gratifying to think that such interest is taken in the progress of the University, and especially in the operation of the elective system, to the discussion of which, so large a part of the recent report is given. Indeed, a lack of interest in these matters would not be very complimentary, in what it would imply to students at Harvard...
...majority of our students; supported by a petition from the leading literary society of the college, and by another from those graduates now studying in the Law School; endorsed by many a graduate of prominence, - the great prayer petition of 1886 cannot fail to mark an era in the progress of Harvard. But granting that it fail in its main object, - that, in spite of it, prayers still remain compulsory, - yet the Overseers cannot refuse to heed the reasonable and manly request contained in a minor clause, asking that detailed reasons be given for unfavorable action, if such action...