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...each instance, the only information elicited was to the effect that they had, as yet, nothing to say about the newly adopted regulations. Just why this mysterious state of affairs should exist, it is difficult to understand, inasmuch as the decision of the faculty meeting is final, and therefore bound to become public in a short time...
...been sixty years during which we have been developing elective studies, only finishing our work last June. The course of events shows that there is to be a real university at Cambridge, and if the purpose of the country as regards gifts is continued, we are bound to be one in a few years. We get more money than any other university, if that is to be taken as an evidence of popular approval. Not that I think money is everything. Sometimes I am told that we are more careful at Cambridge of things intellectual rather than things moral...
...being first gone over, clause by clause, and very thoroughly discussed and amended. By the first clause, the students gain a very considerable advantage; for by it any resolution passed by them has the same weight as faculty committee resolution; and the faculty members of the committee are also bound to report the action of the faculty back to the student members. When the clause for the appointment and election of members was reached, three or four schemes were proposed; one of minority representation, a very complex one, providing for delegates from the societies, athletic bodies, and newspapers...
...strangling, or breaking the joints of one's opponent. In the first kind, three falls meant defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force of the blow. The contestants fought until one held up his hand as a sign of defeat. Milling and blows below the waist were allowed, and, in fact, everything which could help to defeat an opponent...
...American College freshman has undergone an almost startling development, and has become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged...