Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting phase of the elective system was suggested by the casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase...
...striking feature in the statistics of the forthcoming catalogue is, however, worthy of more than passing notice. We refer to the marked increase in the number of special students now enrolled. Under the old order of things this increase might have occasioned the remark that the number of drones in the Harvard hive has been greatly augmented, for it cannot be denied that there was once a time in the history of the college when the appellation of "special" marked a student as one who was either too indolent or too dull to successfully complete the regular curriculum. Under...
...library yesterday, a freshman looking over some books in the French department was heard to remark to a friend, "How long that fellow Tome must have been in writing all these books...
...students. We had thought that one of the first tasks of the freshman was to learn the names and uses of the various college buildings. From this communication, however, it seems that some of the undergraduates are not as yet thoroughly posted. To end the matter, then, we would remark that the yellow and white edifice on the northern side of Holmes Field is the college hospital, and we would add that the building is well fitted in every respect for the purposes for which it was built...
...Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which Poe is called to task for want of logic in his story. A strange thing, full of pathos and power is the personal...