The useless habit of making frequent changes in the textbooks, which is characteristic of some of the instructors, has been noticed by us before. Instructors should recollect the large expenses attending the term of study at Harvard, and should aim to reduce rather than add to these expenses. It seems strange that an instructor should not be able to tell whether or not the "print is too fine" or "the German too simple" for the men in his course before selecting the book. To be compelled to buy a book, merely to throw it aside in a week or more for some trivial reason, is very disagreeable.
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