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...institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except the elementary courses might as well be given up, and some subject of use to a greater number...
...SENSE of the eternal fitness of things would seem to dictate that the papers should leave Memorial Hall in peace; but complaints have been pouring into us in regard to the short supply of food furnished. The supply of turkey or grapes or milk, or, in fact, of anything more or less palatable, has a strange proclivity for giving out just at the wrong time. The Crew men say that one cannot get decent meat when one happens to come in at a quarter past six, and that this has been often the case, our own personal experience can testify...
...College has provided a place for the flags and balls which have been won for Harvard in past years by the Crews and Nines. President Eliot has given permission for these trophies to be placed in the Auditor's office in Memorial Hall. To many of us it may seem that these emblems of hard won victories deserve a more prominent place; but they have so long been without any resting-place that we should be thankful that they are now allowed the asylum of even an Auditor's office...
...futurity alone can solve; but we have a question which we doubt not the editors of the Student can answer : What is "a nine made up of extra material"? A nine containing extra material might either be a nine of overfed men, or (strange and paradoxical though it may seem) it might be a nine with more than nine men in it; but a nine made up of extra material is indeed a wonderful thing. Apres tout, perhaps it only means that the material is extra good...
...class of '81 seems to need roughing less than any class that has come to Harvard for several years. Certainly it is not so painfully "cocky" as are most Freshman classes. Indeed, some of the class seem to feel that upper classmen consider them beneath their notice. For the consolation of such modest men we would say that unless a man gives himself away by knocking at the door of U. 5, or by calling the instructor "professor," he is not looked upon as an inferior being by any except senseless Sophomores. We are all liable to be taken...