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...convention of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association that met in New York last week made some wise changes in the constitution of the association and took fair action in respect to the final disposal of the Mott Haven...
...greatest number of times. As Harvard has held the cup for seven consecutive years, it is impossible for any other college to win the trophy an equal number of times. The dispute which arose last year about the final disposition of the cup, was settled by the action of the convention last Saturday. But although the cup is virtually ours, still it does not follow that we do not need to work just as hard as ever to win it at the remaining contests...
...This action is another of the many illustrations of the enthusiastic love of Alma Mater that characterizes not only the undergraduates and recent graduates, but even those who were in Yale back...
...this action, Columbia is the first of the large colleges to take the step of giving to women the same privileges as are extended to men. Whether this progressive movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...
...great evil of our American civilization is its uniformity. Uniformity in the common school education, uniformity of standards in thought and in action always check a broad development of intellectual life. Then there grows the absolute tyranny of public opinion that stifles all that is good in individuality...