Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those already familiar with Harvard customs the system of voluntary prayers needs no explanation or recommendation. To those, however, who are as yet strangers at Cambridge a word on this subject may be said. The system they will find here in vogue is of course new to them. They have hitherto been unused to perfect freedom, and religion has doubtless been more of an obligation than a privilege. They hear the Chapel bell with a consciousness that it rather invites than summons them, and for a moment they hesitate in the exercise of their duty. They forget, perhaps, that...
...offer plane trigonometry must take either plane trigonometry during his freshman year, and wait until his sophomore year before commencing analytics, or he may take an elementary course (B) in analytic geometry during his freshman year, and in that case he will find himself considerably embarrassed in pursuing the subject. For course 3 will be too advanced for him, while if he joins course C during the latter half of his sophomore year, he will find that since courses B and C are given by different professors the subject is so differently treated that he has much to learn before...
...necessity patiently endured the injustice. The appointment of a anitor-in-chief, who shall be responsible for the work of his assistants, will be received with much favor. The fact that all persons employed about the buildings are to be obliged to wear some distinctive and respectable uniform is subject for silent congratulation...
...Failure or refusal to play games arranged or failure to arrange names may be subject for portests under the above rules: a game so forfeited going like a game won towards the winning of the pennant...
...current number of the Advocate appeared yesterday. The editorial department is devoted to a discussion of freshman athletics, in which nothing new on the subject is developed. It would certainly seem that some other subject could be more profitably treated. The unfortunate freshman ball game at New Haven has already been thoroughly discussed, and it is hard to understand what is to be gained by a mere rehearsal of the very uninteresting story again. We should think that the college would want to forget the whole unfortunate affair as soon as possible. And as for the alleged apathy...