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During the last few years the great growth of Harvard has been making itself manifest in even the smallest branches of the University. The statistics which are published every year bear witness to the unfailing increase in the number of men who choose Harvard as the institution at which to gain their higher education; and the present year especially has seen a tremendous addition to the numbers of the students. Side by side with these statistical evidences of growth have been seen others equally telling. The accommodations of the college have had to be increased to meet the pressure...
...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped. and the candidates receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...
...report for 1889-90 President Eliot maintains his attitude of hostility to freshman intercollegiate sports. He says: "The best number of intercollegiate contests is the smallest number which will maintain a keen interest in each sport. A strict application of this principle would exclude intercollegiate matches between freshmen." This is precisely what it would not do. The one reason for organizing freshman teams is that they act as feeders to the university teams. They bring into athletics many men who would feel themselves hopelessly beneath the standard of university teams, but are glad to try for freshman teams. They form...
...first and strongest objection to the plan is, that we believe that it will inevitably lower the standard of our college education and degrade the bachelor's degree. Whether the proposed reduction be great or small, the same momentous principle is involved. The smallest reduction would be a step backwards and would reverse the best traditions of the college and the fixed policy of the past thirty years. This period has witnessed a slow but steady raising of the standard of the degree as a result of a radical improvement in the whole system of teaching. We can look back...
...ZAUBERLEHRLING.Some of the actors of the Lilliputians who give Der Zauberlehrling at the Hollis Street this week are clever players, especially Herr Ebert, the smallest. The music is very pretty...