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...safe and proper restriction on athletic sports is to be found in the requirements of the classroom. At Yale we get along well with our young men by allowing them to guide their own affairs, only insisting that they attend regularly to their college work, be obedient to authority, and keep good order. We are so well pleased with the arrangement and the resulting good feeling between instructors and pupils, that we do not propose to disturb our own peace or annoy our students by hasty and uncalled-for legislation, even if by our refusal to adopt such legislation...
...Blind College at Worcester, England, recently tried the novel experiment of holding athletic games for the blind students. Their running was directed by bells and by stationing boys at intervals along the roped track. Tugs-of-war, leaping, putting the shot, races of all kinds and distances, were successfully and creditably carried...
Rapid transit is fast coming to Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower...
...little if any work on their courses up to the time for examination. Then with the aid of tutos and a few days of hard "cramming," they will acquire enough of the leading matter of the subjects in hand to pass the lest prescribed, and be permitted to go along in the same manner until the next examination time when the process is repeated. Such a state of affairs is really ludicrous, when we reflect that men are sent to college to at least acquire some little knowledge more than they had on entrance. It is worse than a waste...
...years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college, drawing away energies which might otherwise be wasted in idleness or vice, but whether intercollegiate contests were desirable was a question of opinion. If abandoned, Yale could doubtless get along without them. No proposition to abandon them, however, would be entertained on the ground that there was any extraordinary brutality on the part of students. The undergraduates were as magnanimous as any similar body in any other college...