Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sensational story appeared in the New York papers last Wednesday describing a fight between two Harvard students over a sweet-heart. It is needless to say the article was without the slightest vestige of truth...
...conduct. As it is not modest, however, to talk of ourselves, we would turn our attention to others, and would speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope, yes. As a new year's gift to them we would submit our prayer petition, and would hope that they may be so influenced by seasonable ambition that something new may be recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request...
...present year seems to be one of reform. Revisions of the regulations and warnings are now supplemented by a revision of the term bills. If we sought to characterize the new form of the term-bills by two words, we would say it is in the first place simple, and in the second place economical. While the old term-bill had to be turned about at two or three different angles before the happy recipient could satisfy his thrilling interest in its contents, the new bill may be read, like any other bill, with less trouble and in less time...
...which have always existed between the Latin School and its younger sister, Harvard University. No school, perhaps, has been so closely connected with Harvard as the Latin School. Its masters have been almost an unbroken series of Harvard graduates, and in return the school has continued, we might almost say for centuries, to supply the university with an annual contingent of scholars including nearly its entire graduating class. Almost one hundred Latin school graduates are now studying at Harvard. The "Harvard spirit" rules in the Latin school and a "Harvard man" there assumes gigantic proportions. Nothing could argue better...
...necessity, by many instructors, thus proving the soundness of our principle in the very face of the present marking system. For no teachers more than these appreciate the utter inadequacy and injustice of the percentage scale, with its general average. Here, all feel the necessity of a coarse scale, say, with 5 or 10 as the maximum mark...