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...education. Direct testimony, however, from those who have had actual experience with it, such as was presented in the letter from Cornell, which we published a few days ago, and such as is given below by our Ann Arbor correspondent, cannot but be of some value. Besides this, we attempt to give below expressions of opinion from the several colleges where the advocates of co-education have been most actively pressing their claims of late - Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania - expressions which, we think, quite fairly represent student opinion on the matter at these colleges. Vassar's voice...
President Porter of Yale has been delivering some excellent observations on the two recent propositions which seem to promise results of the greatest importance to American university education, namely, the plan of establishing a great American school of Philosophy at Princeton and the proposed attempt to convert Columbia College into a great national university...
...Another attempt upon the life of the beech tree in the hollow between Weld and Matthews was made during the recess. This makes the third unsuccessful trial to destroy that unoffending object...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will you kindly allow me a space in your columns to make a few remarks concerning class lives? The blanks which I am di-tributing are of such a formidable and discouraging size that men are deterred even from an attempt to fill them out. The following set of questions may therefore be of some assistance as a guide for what is required...
...feet. At 9 ft. Soren cleared the bar by several inches, causing great excitement. The applause was prolonged for some time. The bar was then put at 9 ft. 9 in., a quarter of an inch above the record; at this height Soren baulked at the first attempt, but his pole knocked off the bar. Considerable laughter was caused by the frantic efforts of the stewards to put the bar in place. On the third try the bar was cleared, but in falling to the ground Soren knocked the bar off. Soren finally gave up the attempt to beat...