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...third number of the Advocate, which was issued yesterday is notice-able for the excellence and vigor of its editorials, particularly those treating of the recent resolution of the Board of Overseers calling for information in regard to the system of voluntary attendance at chapel service and at lectures. The lack of foresight manifested by the Overseers is justly criticized and the injury likely to result from this indirect attack upon Harvard's present methods is clearly appreciated. We wish to commend also the editorial upon the now celebrated article in the North American. No tendency is shown to hide...
...number of Greek Letter Societies has increased and multiplied to such an extent during recent years, especially in the colleges of the West and South that considerable ingenuity is required to devise new combinations of the Greek Alphabet. The oldest organization which comes under the head of Greek Letter Societies is the venerable Phi Beta Kappa which was established at William and Mary College on Decemper 5, 1776. It is believed that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter as well as the college itself is now defunct. Twenty-two chapters are now in existence...
Many laboratory note-books belonging to former students in Phys. B or to recent candidates for admission to college remain unclaimed at the Jefferson Laboratory, room 41: The owners are requested to call for them at their earliest convenience...
...Monthly for November contains a number of interesting articles covering a wide range of subjects. The graduate paper is "The Student's Business, a Homily," contributed by Professor L. B. R. Briggs. Critical articles on Harvard life and its influences have been so numerous of recent months that Harvard men are beginning to feel like specimens in an educational museum. If all the criticisms were as good humored as Professor Briggs' we could not complain. He has been most intimately associated with Harvard undergraduates for many years and surely knows whereof he speaks. His comments on the abstracting influence...
...engaged in all departments of the college. The undergraduate department could easily be abolished and attention given exclusively to the graduate deparment, too little attention to which is paid in this country. On the other hand, such has been the excessive multiplicity of undergraduate colleges in this country in recent years, that, to quote Professor Barnard, "The business of these colleges is greatly overdone, and it would certainly be a material benefit to the educational interests of the country if a large proportion of the existing colleges could be suppressed. From statistics gathered by the undersigned in former years with...