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...same date, Jan. 7th. The time necessary for preparation for the final examinations is not only thus seriously encroached upon, but those men who have both courses must devote a portion of the already pitiably short Christmas recess to preparation for this needless aggravation-the strongest modern argument against conservation of energy-where an immense amount of labor is expended with no adequate results-the hour examination. It is due to the respective professors to state that they are both postponed examinations. Can they not be indefinitely postponed...
...Vacation at Harvard and Yale" is the title of a comedy presented at the New Haven Opera House recently. The argument is the adventures of a Yale and a Harvard student and two Vassar College girls. Among the features were representations of a scull race and college sports and games...
...year we argued in favor of a training table, as there were a great many new men on the nine and we thought that by being constantly thrown together they would become better acquainted. This year the nine will probably be composed of nearly the same men, and our argument will not hold good. We think that with good conscientious outside training the nine will succeed fully as well as though they were at a training table...
...Farrar gives his views on the present value of the system in the following words : "I must, then. avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole, and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words...
Continuing the argument, the writer says "The results of this utter neglect of any sound system of physical education stand out in almost every city home in America. Not one boy in five is well built, or, unless he is fat, measures within an inch, often three inches, as much about the chest or thigh or upper arm, or weighs within ten pounds as much, as a well-proportioned, vigorous, properly developed boy of his age should...