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Although the conduct of Harvard men in recitation rooms is proverbial for decorum, yet we regret to say that there are some little matters which ought to be of more concern to the students. Notably among the disturbances is the habit which some freshmen have of reading the morning papers in the lectures in English. A practice of this kind, insuiting as it is to the instructor, cannot be too strongly condemned. The applauding which is so frequently indulged in the Chemistry lectures has been spoken of before by the CRIMSON; but another reminder on the morning of the lecture...
...debate and of a reading-room, are very closely related to each other, and in many particulars the two organizations find common causes for existence. Both the debating society and the reading-room are organizations designed to fill out the several deficiencies of the regular college course; and every student should realize that the full benefits of a college course cannot be gained without his patronizing these organizations to a greater or less degree. It is very fitting, and not at all surprising, that the Union should undertake the establishing of a reading-room, and it would seem...
...pleased to see, by the proof sheets of the forthcoming catalogue, that the Dante Society offers an annual prize, for three years, of one hundred dollars for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life and works of Dante. Competition is open to any student of the university or to any graduate of not more than three years standing. The first prize is offered for the year 1886-87, and the essay must be deposited with the Dean on or before the first day of May of the latter year. The judges of the essays will...
...true that many matters of practical importance are too often overlooked. It is only reasonable to expect, that the modern college graduate shall have a comparatively thorough knowledge of questions of common interest, and the rules by which public assemblies should be governed. If unexpectedly called upon, how many students now in college could express an opinion, satisfactory to themselves even, on questions of public interest, or feel qualified to decide on any, but the most common questions of parliamentary usage? The necessity and desirability of something that will stimulate individual investigation on all such matters, cannot fail...
...above paragraph is taken from the Dartmouth, where it appeared recently as part of a plan for a debating society. The idea, contained in it, namely, that a college course in itself, must necessarily be incomplete, that the students are left to themselves to extend the course so that it shall be complete, is not a particularly original idea, yet it is a truth that can never well be lost sight of. The courses that a college is able to offer, whether in languages, science, philosophy or art, do not satisfy every side of human nature and human intellect...