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...behind the times, and that they are inadequate to meet the demands of those who wish to keep pace with the present advance of education. After complaining of a few minor evils which exist in the management of the college, he closes with the prediction that the new president, whoever he may be, will find a heavy task before him in altering the present system of management to one which shall be in conformity with modern requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

...college papers do not fill up more or less of their space with comments on "Our Exchanges." Whoever would know the inter-relations of college papers has but to search for this heading, and beneath it read the compliments, slanders, questions, and suggestions which one worthy sheet sees fit to bestow on its loved, or hated, contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Our Exchanges." | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

...Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/9/1886 | See Source »

...extension of this use. We hardly need to expatiate on the value of a library to college students, nor do we need to declare what an impetus a large collection of books must give to the intellectual life of any institution of learning. It is enough to say that whoever neglects to use these books gets from his course in college only a small portion of the profit that he might get. A certain member of a class now graduated once boasted that he had never taken a book from the Harvard library, although he had roomed four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1885 | See Source »

...that it will be favorably received by the college at large. The Index, although an extremely unpretentious volume, contains matters that are of greatest interest to its Harvard readers; it is the means by which the achievements of the college at large and of its individual members are recorded. Whoever would know what has been accomplished by any Harvard undergraduate, or by any Harvard organization, has but to look over the Index, and there read the inevitable record. Certain pages and certain positions on the pages are significant indices of a college man's career, and often stand for several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1885 | See Source »

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