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However great the dislike felt in regard to attendance at morning chapel, the Harvard student has to bear the unpleasantness of this attendance and is interested in all that is likely to make things more to his taste. We suggest, therefore, that men who intend going to chapel any morning, endeavor to be in their seats promptly. The lines of men that file in late almost every morning now give to the services a feature that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt...
...will be accepted and published if deemed of sufficient merit. It is desired that the competition be made as general as possible, and for this reason we again publish this request. Considerable interest has already been manifested, but we wish that it may be still more widespread. Let no student feel backward about contributing since an equal opportunity is afforded to all. The training obtained is highly valuable in being purely that of practical journalism...
...authorized by President Eliot to state that the item that appeared in yesterday's Boston Herald regarding smallpox at Harvard, is a misrepresentation, having but slight foundation. One of our students was conveyed to the college hospital, having a slight attack of scarlet fever. By the article of the Herald reporter, this indisposition was magnified into smallpox. We have condemned this failing of student reporters before, but this latest example of greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire...
...last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard student is from a little less than three to five times as great as that of the average Yale student. The former is off duty, either from choice or compulsion, rather more than 16 per cent of his time; the latter from less than 3 and a third to a trifle more...
...abuse of Harvard's system, is not a criterion of the ultimate merits or defects of such a system. Professor Palmer shows that, on the whole, Harvard seniors had not abused the privilege extended to them, and thereby refuted the charge often made, that college students are not capable of governing themselves in attendance at recitations. Statistics of attendance at Harvard and Yale cannot be compared unless several facts are taken into account, which Professor Ladd has ignored. The marks of Yale students depend to a greater degree on regularity at lectures and recitations, than do the marks of Harvard...