Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system, however, in spite of its advantages, is subject to constant abuse. Men are very careless about returning books to their proper places, and though complaints on this head are constantly appearing in the columns of the CRIMSON, they seem to have little effect. It takes more trouble to replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what...
...Nothing can make up for the absence of the actual picture by which alone the impression of form and color can be conveyed. The present modes of instruction at Harvard may help a student to talk about art, but fails to give him a definite understanding of the subject. With a picture or series of pictures before him, the student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles of art than the readings of columns can convey; if the two methods of reading and practical study of illustration are combined, rapid advance is possible. The library...
...Yale Kent Club has already secured two speakers for the course of five lectures to be given under the auspices of the club. They are ex-Congressman Frank Hurd of Ohio, who will speak on tariff reform, on April 18, and Hon. Simon Stern of New York, whose subject and date have not yet been decided upon. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, will be invited to deliver one of the lectures...
...John G. Brooks, of Brockton, will lecture on Monday evening, under the auspices of the Finance Club, on the following subject: "The Tariff from the standpoint of the laborer; an object lesson in tariff reform...
Theme IX. will be due on Tuesday, March 13. Subject: "An Exposition." It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock...