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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the changes which the elective pamphlet for 1886-87 contains, there is one which must meet the heartiest approval of every student in college. We refer to the new method in conducting the elementary course in Political Economy. Excellent as the course has always been, it seems as if now it could not be surpassed as a means of giving a general and comprehensive view of great economical questions. For the first half-year Mills' Political Economy and Prof. Dunbar's lectures on banking, will be studied. For the second half-year, however, a choice of two divisions...
Among the later volumes in the American Commonwealth series, is a work by one of our most energetic and capable instructors, Dr. Royce, which has never received due notice in our columns. We refer to his book entitled "California," a careful account of the author's mother state, which gives in short space a very clear and adequate idea of the history of California during the most interesting period of its growth, the years from 1846 to 1856. Dr. Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror...
...hesitate to approach a question of such moment to the college as the "state of the yard," we feel that when each spring reminds us of a growing practice among the students detrimental to the appearance of the yard, some attention ought to be called to the matter. We refer to the custom of walking across the grass. Whenever there is a large plot of grass it is almost certain to be marred by a long winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have been tried...
...much too soon after dinner for comfort. It is needless to say that a most abnormal development of the biceps of almost every man in college would ensue, and this, with the wasting of valuable time and the loss of the more valuable inspiration of street car literature - we refer to such meaning proverbs as "Soapine did it" - might necessitate even the closing of the college. In view of these facts we sincerely hope that the conductors and drivers of the Cambridge tramways will take serious thought before they strike and interrupt the progress of the "oldest, largest and grandest...
...Physics, one or two improvements can be made which would, we think, meet the wants of many scientific students in a more satisfactory way. We discover, in looking over the college curriculum, that the provision for the study of electricity and magnetism is in some respects inadequate. We refer particularly to the absence of an elementary laboratory course in these subjects. The only course in which a knowledge of them can be acquired is in Physics C where only the last four months of the college year is devoted to their study and the first five are filled with tedious...