Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among a number of rather exasperating restrictions in the Harvard Library there is one which seems particularly without reason. I do not mean the rule which forbids you to remove the drawers from the card catalogue, although that frequently forces the reader to sprawl on the floor if he desires to consult the lower drawers, and often causes a considerable waste of time when some one else is using one of the drawers in the same column with the one which you wish to use. Nor do I refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access...
...first class game took place on May 3. The nines therefore only had a little over a week in which to practice, and the result of this very naturally was that the playing on both sides was very loose and from a technical standpoint exceedingly uninteresting. There is no reason why this should not be remedied this year by calling out the class baseball candidates immediately. Less than four weeks remain now before the first class game and of these one week is lost by the vacation. Certainly three weeks is none too long a time for training...
This morning the CRIMSON issues a call for candidates from the freshman class. The proportion of freshmen that have offered themselves thus far as candidates has been small, and for that reason we now issue this special call...
...Yale faculty has decided to drop the popular course in "modern novels" which has been given during the last few years by Dr. W. L. Phelps. It is the largest course in college and the reason given for its withdrawal is that it takes too much time from the classic and history courses...
...University, the public is not only freely admitted but cordially invited. The result of such an arrangement is that the front seats are all taken by the respectable Cambridge citizens, and the students are compelled to sit in back or to stand up. One of the chief reasons that is given for opening lectures to the public is that if they were restricted to students the halls would not be half filled. If this were true it would be an unfortunate admission, but it is not. If a lecture is worth hearing and the students are not kept away...