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Formal examinations, as tests of fitness for every kind of work, which disregard utterly the personal equation, are being disproved, modified, and abandoned all along the line. As regards testing fitness to do college work, we believe there is practical value in the suggestion of Professor Thorndike, that the colleges which now allow the College Entrance Board to examine applicants, entrust to it the power to credit schools on the basis of an examination of the actual success in college of candidates prepared and endorsed by that school...
...more than 16 persons should say so on the list they hand in, so that they may be assigned to adjoining boxes. Groups of fewer than 3 couples should apply for one of the tables which are placed in the centre of the Delta, the boxes being placed along the sides of the Delta. Men who do not join a box or table group will be assigned to a place by the committee and care will be taken so far as possible to assign men to a box or table with their friends...
...beginning was a slow and painful process, the paper being sustained by a few enthusiastic undergraduates who believed the college should have some newspaper publishing more news than did the Advocate and furnishing students with more journalistic experience. From 1873 to 1875 it struggled along as the MAGENTA, named from the college color of the day, after the analogy of the Oxford DARK BLUE...
...Tomes excelled at the bat for Harvard, the latter connecting safely three times out of as many times at bat. Gannett also made a spectacular catch of a line drive in the fifth inning. Frye contributed a spectacular play by making a pretty catch of a hard hit fly along the left field foul line. York in centre field for Maine made a good try for Clark's fly in the fifth and managed to touch the ball but it got away from him, Clark making a circuit of the bases...