Word: reference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With nearly two hundred courses in subjects ranging from Semitic to Natural History, it seems strange that one study, of interest to every one, should be almost entirely neglected. We refer to that grandest of sciences, astronomy. We know that there is a course given in college, set down in the elective pamphlet as Mathematics XII, which treats of "descriptive and epherical astronomy." Doubtless many students might like to elect the course if it were not for the fact that a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, makes a suggestion in its last number which is timely and worthy of consideration. Civil service reform is attracting much attention in political life at present, and with justice. It is the important question of the day. College men, and we refer particularly to Harvard undergraduates, have little or no real knowledge of the right and wrong of the matter, and the Advocate's suggestion of a course of lectures on the subject by prominent civil service reformers, is very pertinent. Cannot the authorities of the college, or some one of our energetic societies, take...
...certain course in our English department have just had their attention called, in a most striking manner, to one custom in college life which has become so common where it is not regarded as a perfectly legitimate practice, as to be looked upon as a very light offence. We refer to the habit of "cribbing." That a man should have so little sense of honor as to deliberately copy sentence after sentence from a book, or degrade another man by hiring him to write his theme, indicates a code of morals which is difficult to understand. At last...
...guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush for Harvard when we have to refer again and again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again in Memorial, and again in the gymnasium. It is due college honor at large that no false sense of friendship, or generosity, should prevent a student who knows one of these public offenders, from disclosing his name...
...make another slight change in the delivery of books. At present the bound periodicals can be taken out as any other books and kept out for one month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more...