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...asserting its power to revoke today degrees given twenty years ago, but it is hardly necessary to say that no such absurdity is implied in the vote of the corporation and overseers. It is much to be regretted, however, that the college authorities are compelled to take any action on such a matter as this. Far better would it have been for the graduates, acting by classes, to have surpressed this last relic of less manly days, then to have obliged the coporation by feeble and negative means to attempt to enforce dicipline over graduates to which under-classmen alone...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...doubt that a very considerable movement of "reform" is beginning to make itself felt among our American colleges in the matter of athletic sports. Not only among educators and college men has the question been attracting much attention during the past few years, but since President Eliot's recent action in the matter the general press and the public have begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think...
...Princeton to cheat Yale. What grounds the News had for making so serious a charge, we have no means of knowing. Probably, however, they claim the right to gratuitously insult, as their players claim the right to play off-side and foul. We are forced to admit that the action of the eleven and the college press has been charmingly consistent and equally contemptible. Their bluff game has won them the championship but has lost them the respect and esteem of their opponents. If they are contented with such a state of affairs it is to be regretted, since such...
...same time should this rule be put into effect, the distance from the poles and the position of the ball would probably be sufficient to prevent a goal from the field. It is to be hoped that this matter will be thoroughly discussed before time comes to take decisive action upon...