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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choose at his own discretion. Whatever the merits of such a system might be, the great question is, whether Harvard was too hasty in making her latest move. Will not the radical reform which President Eliot has introduced force the standard of short work to be raised in a shorter time than a more conservative policy could. There can be no doubt that the requirements for entrance must be raised tremendously in order to effect any radical reform in the teaching given in our schools. There is much misapprehension relative to the average ages for entering a university in America...
...more pretence to literary excellence than the "Crimson." In addition to the editorials, sketches, etc., it published short stories and essays. It also gave more attention to items than it now does. The "Lampoon" is but little changed. The articles which it prints to-day are, as a rule, shorter than formerly; the verse, on the whole, is better. But unfortunately fewer cuts are distributed throughout the text...
...does not seem probable that our English fellow students, with no more knowledge at the start, can acquire more learning, in a shorter time and with no harder work than we. Besides the possibility that their arts students have acquired in that time, some professional learning (for which we have to go to our Medical, Law, or Divinity schools) does not raise the standard of their arts degree in comparison with ours...
This year's Christmas vacation is one week shorter than usual and recitations will begin Jan. 6. - Yale News...
...reserved books, were refused admittance. It is bad enough not to have the use of the library during the long evenings, simply because our rich university will not find the funds to light the building, but to have the time in which the library can be used made shorter than the rules require deserves stronger condemnation. The policy of the library authorities in closing the library at this early hour is to prevent students from abusing their eyesight. Will not this end be accomplished if the reading-room is closed at the regulation time for reading purposes, but the library...