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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laws made in 1734, from which the following are mainly taken, one section of the first chapter refers to the scholastic requirements for admission and the other five sections to the payment of bills. Regulations concerning a religious, virtuous life occupy a whole chapter, eleven sections beginning "All scholars shall behave themselves blamelessly, leading sober, righteous and godly lives" and continuing to impose lines for disorder in the meeting house and for "profane and irreverent behavior at prayers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Regulations in 1734. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...order to maintain the unity of organization on which so much care and money have been expended, to provide additional quarters for the accommodation of the increasing number of students, and the natural demands for expansion in the specialties of each department. At the present moment an additional section of the museum would barely meet our requirements." We understand that work will commence on this another season. Nor is the interest wholly confined to the: students. Most of the exhibition rooms have been thown open to the public, the number of visitors has greatly increased, so that it has become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

...necessary for the commemoration, to determine on the order of religious and literary exercises, to issue invitations to sister institutions to send delegates for the occasion, and to invite the friends of the college to be present. Orations, processions, dinners, class meetings, the gathering of illustrious men from every section of the country, are all to be combined to make this celebration a worthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Centennial. | 12/9/1886 | See Source »

Hereafter Dr. Hart's section in History 20 will meet Wednesdays at 10 o'clock in addition to the regular hour, until the mid-years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/4/1886 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I think that D's criticism of section 27 of the "New Regulations" is very just. The new rule is, in my opinion, inconsistent with one of the principles underlying the elective system, - that equal excellence in every study cannot be attained by the same individual, but that some minds are so constituted that they can not pursue certain branches with success. Now this principle is recognized by the faculty elsewhere, as is evidenced by the following extract from the 1886-87 mathematical announcement; "It is unadvisable for students who have little taste or capacity for Mathematics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/4/1886 | See Source »

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