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...this volume possesses an especial interest for Harvard men because it contains witty and tender reminis cences of everything peculiar to Harvard life. Among the subjects are: Class Days, Goodies, Pocos, Digs, College Sports, Window Seats, The Annex, The College Pump, The Yard, The Faculty, Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, The Bell, The Chapel, Jones, Examinations, The Bursar, John, Memorial Hall, Old Graduates, and something of Life, Love, Youth and Fate. The book will contain about two hundred pages, the productions of about seventy contributors from thirteen classes...
...point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should not hear much about officiousness. The majority now have matters absolutely in their...
...steam pump is being employed for pumping water from the well near the gymnasium. The quality of the water is very good...
...leading New York papers a few days ago published a column and a half communication from a Yale alumnus headed, "Instructors who Pump," on the way in which instruction was given there twenty years ago, and, as he claims, has continued up to the present time. He says that wholesome, intelligent study has been subverted to a rigorous system of hack questioning and recitation "marks." the object of which has been to show and record what the student does not know, rather than what he does. Attempts to interest the student in his work were then, and are now, rarely...
...pump in the yard is in process of repair...