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...conceived the idea of establishing what is to be called a Correspondence University, where the instruction is to be given by correspondence alone. It is hoped that through this institution many persons may be reached, such as teachers in public and private schools, young men who could not afford the necessary expenses of a college education, and people in every walk of life who, while having no desire for a college education, might wish to pursue some special study for their own improvement. The instruction is to be carried on by correspondence between the professors and the pupils. About twenty...
...student returning to the bosom of the alma mater with emotions of agreeable surprise. If the freshmen of former year have had cause to wonder at the vastness and extent of the college, what must be the feelings of the freshmen of today ? But these very freshmen, moreover, themselves afford the greatest cause for wonder and congratulation. A class whose members are reported to exceed three hundred need have no occasion to emulate the illustrious example of little Jacky Horner and his Christmas pie. An infant so big as this need scarcely proclaim its own bigness...
...other respects also the year opens brightly for the Harvard student. With a record of victories, brilliant and complete, made by its crews, with the record made in the past year in general athletics, in tennis and in lacrosse, the college can reasonably afford to be well satisfied. The successes of the past will demand new successes in the future. A healthy feeling of confidence and hope must succeed the feeling of despondency that has often prevailed in the college. Thus with classes larger than ever before and with the cheerful spirit inspired by success, all those interests which occupy...
...that the Columbia race has been rowed, and Harvard has so completely disposed of the absurd story of her fear of last year, we hope that measures will be taken toward giving up the Columbia race. We can afford to withdraw after such a victory, and devote ourselves entirely to Yale, as Yale devotes her energies entirely to defeating Harvard. The disadvantages of the race with Columbia are too many and too well known to require description. We think we voice the sentiment of the college in asking that the race in the future be given up. Columbia is satisfied...
...freshman classes of seventy, four or five boys worry through, often with broken health and exhausted energy. Now, if the object of the men who endowed these colleges was to send out yearly a few highly educated scholars, this system is the proper one; but if it was to afford a chance to the mass of young men for development and usefulness, this system completely thwarts and makes it null...