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...teams. The utter inadequacy of the present fields to supply the space needed for the proper development of the different athletic teams has long been apparent. To this cause, almost as much as to any other, may be attributed the poor success of Harvard in athletic contests during recent years. Teams desiring to secure outdoor work have been compelled to use the fields at the most inconvenient hours, and this fact has deterred many men from training. The new field, with room for two football or baseball fields, will obviate this difficulty, and give ample opportunity for the development...
...regretted that the Princetonian should see fit to decide upon the merits of the recent vote of our Board of Overseers without waiting for fuller information upon the question involved. It is a universal tendency of college journalism to form hasty opinions on insufficient knowledge of a matter, and it appears that the Princetonian has erred in this direction. Unfortunately, too, a vein of malice seems to appear, which wounds more than the unjust condemnation of our system of recitations...
...number of the Advocate is a thoroughly interesting one. Several of the stories are written upon harrowing themes, but are relieved by their humor and the sober tone of "The Week" and "Topics of the Day." The first of the editorials discusses the recent vote of the overseers. It points out vigorously but moderately the fallacies upon which this action is based. While combating the proposed restrictions upon absences and choice of electives, and the provisions to have more frequent examinations, and "guardian angels for the whole freshman class," it supports the effort to secure more regular attendance at recitations...
...recent addition of a section to the University Museum brings to light more widely than ever the remarkable growth of this department of Harvard under the guidance of the present curator, Alexander Agassiz, LL. D. It is since Mr. Agassiz's appointment in 1874 that the Museum has been most rapidly enlarged both in buildings and connections. Under his curatorship, also, the Museum of Comparative Zoology has been so arranged and remodelled as to leave to Mr. Agassiz's successor, should he resign, as he at present intends, a thoroughly manageable institution with a distinct policy and an income adequate...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...