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...freshman year can now be anticipated will also do much to encourage men to attempt to take their degrees in three years. In fact, the new regulations amount to raising the standard of admission in individual cases and then granting the degree after three years of elective work. This action is a sure indication of the direction affairs are taking at Harvard in regard to required studies...
...touched by it and moved to better living, must be a very insensible and earth-bound person. Twice within a few years the college faculty has represented to the corporation that attendance at prayers ought, in their judgment, to be made voluntary, but the corporation has declined to take action upon the subject. In the autumn of 1881 a motion made in the board of overseers that the statutes ought to be altered so that attendance at prayers might be voluntary was rejected by a large majority...
This startling explanation of the recent action of the faculty will do much to allay the dissatisfaction the passage of this obnoxious law has caused among the students, and will also cause them to look upon their faculty as possessed of a greater degree of shrewdness than they had hitherto been credited with. In conclusion we advise every student to subscribe for Life...
...fresh aquatic brawl" of which the Spirit speaks is hardly worthy of mention. We do not think that any Yale paper (with the notable exception of the News) charges Harvard men with being "sneaks and scoundrels" in their action concerning the arrangements for next year's race. Harvard is simply helpless in this matter on account of the new arrangements of this year. The article in the News, we trust, was actuated by an unauthorized and ill-considered article in the Boston Herald, which does not in any way represent Harvard's sentiments. The News itself withdraws to some extent...
...recent action of the Yale graduate advisory committee, which has some control over her athletics, in regard to Harvard's delay in answering the challenge of the boat club, has caused much amusement and some indignation at Harvard. The fact is that this was simply the result of an unavoidable and unintentional delay in holding meetings of the Harvard advisory committee. There has been and is now no intention whatever to decline the challenge, and a formal answer will be sent as soon as several preliminary questions are settled between the committees of the two colleges, the most notable...