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Yesterday afternoon the faculty met and decided by a large majority to adopt the following arrangement of hours for next year...
There are other sides of the question which come up, but those we have mentioned seem to be the principal. The faculty, we understand, is now considering the arguments for these two plans; and is very soon to decide which method they shall adopt for next year. In their vote on the question we trust they will be influenced somewhat by the opinion of the students on a matter which so nearly concerns the latter. We cannot pretend that our view on the subject is the accurate expression of the whole college; because the students have...
Neither of these two plans may seem adequate, but they are the best which, with the college's present resources, the faculty can find, and it is almost certain that the faculty will adopt one of them for next year. Those who favor the first plan are likely to say that the college can easily endure to begin work a half hour earlier in the warm months and to recite a half hour later in the winter months, and that under this arrangement a stated time, though it be short, will be set apart for the noon meal. Those...
...other sports. They have, therefore, taken a step to bring about such contests between the two colleges. Although it is not definitely settled that the plan will go through, there seems to be no present reason to doubt that it will be tried. The colleges will certainly adopt the plan if they consult their own wishes first...
...many long before it was introduced at Harvard, yet as it has received its most liberal development in this college, it can justly be called a Harvard institution. Western universities have been struck by Harvard's success and progress under the elective system and have been eager to adopt it as far as their resources would allow. The election of studies in the University of Minnesota is even more liberal than at Yale...