Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...commence with the class of '51, we are met by the name of Professor Goodwin, "one of the few men who can reason scientifically on the subject of Greek tenses," as an English authority once said. In the next class was the late Chauncy Wright, one of the foremost American biologists; and in the next, President Eliot. The class of '55 contained Alexander Agassiz, recognized in this and other countries as an authority on natural history, and also Phillips Brooks, than whom there is scarcely a more prominent preacher in this country. In the next class we find...
...efforts have been recently made to revive the Rifle Corps, a few words on the subject may not be out of place. Harvard has always had a great taste for novelty, and a strong tendency to drop anything of whatever use or value as soon as the charm of novelty has departed from it. Such has been the cause of the rise and sudden fall of the Rifle Corps, and there seems to be little advantage in attempting to revive it. It would be much better if those who are interested in the Corps would turn to other forms...
RATHER an excited article appeared in the Advocate of February 16 regarding the prices we pay for our rooms in Cambridge. It seems hardly likely that, if the writer of that article had reflected calmly on the subject, he would have arrived at the extreme conclusions to which the Advocate has given publicity. There are rooms in Cambridge of all sizes, positions, and prices, - a variety, we should have supposed, sufficient to please the most fastidious. If the price of a room is three hundred dollars, and an applicant finds it exorbitant, the College kindly offers him a pleasant...
...remedy, but of one thing I am convinced; more time ought to be given to review in class. Here the instructor might pass rapidly over the past work, emphasizing the salient points only, and bringing into clear relief those facts and principles necessary to an intelligent understanding of the subject. Without such guidance the student may wander fruitlessly among the treasures of Rome, not knowing that he stands before the masterpieces of Michael Angelo and Raphael...
Much was hoped for from the club crews in the way of bringing to notice and training a supply of oarsmen from which to select candidates for the University, and on this subject much has been written; but, strangely enough, the most vital point has been entirely neglected, viz. the proper coaching of the men in the club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University...