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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MENTION has already been made of the loss to the Crew occasioned by the withdrawal of Mr. Frank Peabody from the Law School. His departure merits more than a passing notice, for his absence will be felt not merely by the Crew itself, but in all our rowing interests. The value of Mr. Peabody's work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly...
...ever before, as undoubtedly instructors are working both themselves and their pupils harder. Hour examinations and theses have never been imposed in such numbers as this year. Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition of the principle that by vacations of a suitable length the minds of all members of the College are so invigorated that the work done is better than it otherwise would be. While...
GAIETY THEATRE. This week, Charles L Davis, as "Alvin Joslin." Next week, Minnie Palmer's "Boarding School...
...Crook" on the opening night, in a body, - men who had been here but a little over a month, and therefore did not know any better, and who are in no sense to be taken as representing Harvard College; and 3d, that as Harvard College is neither a boarding-school nor a lunatic asylum, there is decidedly not discipline enough to keep the students in their rooms...
...only other building which is at all needed at present is a new Law School. This, however, could be built for about $75,000, and the money for it would naturally come from some one more interested in the Law School than Mr. Hastings was. His gift is to the College; and as an expensive building must be put up, an Art Museum certainly has the strongest claim. Before the new building is begun, it is to be hoped that a definite plan (irrespective of existing buildings, if need be) for the buildings of the Yard may be agreed upon...