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...track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty as one man in the coming season...
Apropos of the recent appearance of the new catalogue, it may not be amiss to speak of the unwillingness of the University to distribute copies freely. Until a few years ago graduates could obtain catalogues only by purchasing them at the regular price. Now Alumni may procure copies free from the office, but undergraduates are obliged to buy them at the book shops. We believe the University is working against its own interest here. Its catalogue is one of its best advertisements, and one that, at a small cost, might be made to reach and influence many more...
Harvard Pedagogical Club. Recent Tendencies in Secondary Education. Professor Hanus. Sever...
...soon begin again, and of all the seasons in the year there is none in which fewer objections can be raised to the relative amount of time which is given to athletics and studies. On this point we are forced to disagree with Mr. Caspar Whitney who, in a recent number of Harper's Weekly, showed himself opposed to indoor training in at least one branch of sport-baseball. If the only object of our athletics were to turn out the most skilful teams possible, and if their indoor work took any considerable part of a man's time from...
There have been a number of communications criticising the action of the Directors of the Memorial Dining Hall caused by the recent disturbance. It is not my intention to examine whether the offense was sufficiently great to warrant the measures taken to prevent a recurrence of such disturbances. However, in more than four years' boarding at Memorial, I have noticed that every time a disturbance occurred, there was great indignation expressed in the papers and among many students. So in the present case...