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...absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours and the other clubs selected in turn the hours left unoccupied. Why cannot we adopt the same plan in the matter of our tennis courts (I use the word "our" advisedly since the courts are not private property)? Let those who hold the courts now select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them...
...changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...
...Harvard Library was the first to adopt the "card catalogue" system...
...cannot too highly praise the plan recently adopted at Yale, the particulars of which we learn from a Western exchange. "Dress suits," it says, "will be discontinued by the ushers at the Yale junior examinations." The plan of wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt...
...dissipated ones are fast sinking into early graves." After this warning Mr. Cook goes to point out the thoughts and motives a college man should keep before him. "When a man becomes a junior or a senior he begins to think seriously of the profession which he shall adopt. The first thing he should do is the settlement of a plan for this life and the next. Young men should cultivate the teachings of their loftiest moments and remember what they will want when they have a fireside of their...