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...information given about the various courses. For the first there is no cure but experience; but for the latter there is a possibility of improvement. To do this it would not be necessary to expand the elective pamphlet into a cumbersome volume, nor do we wish it. In one branch, that of geology, the right step has been taken. A description of all courses given has been published, in which the desired information is to be found. In the first place, the importance of the study of geology is set forth in a clear and forcible manner, but none...
...this great country; for you must know that in this country the youth are very wise, while the old men are they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager to impart their knowledge to the professor. They seat themselves upon two chairs apiece, using one for their feet, and when they have become quiet, the professor looks sharply at each youth, for the purpose, I am told, of seeing...
...fault with the Faculty as the cause of these evils. We cannot expect the present small corps of English instructors to do further duty. But we can expect that an earnest appeal shall be made for sufficient funds to establish new professorships, or procure new assistants, in this important branch of study. But while the present overcrowding of both instructors and students continues, it will be difficult to induce men of high reputation to come here, men worthy of sitting in company with the many truly famous professors whose names appear upon our catalogue...
...encouraging. Heretofore many able men have not tried for the Nine because most of the places were filled by those whose equals were not to be found; this, however, is not the condition of the present Nine. It is a disgrace that more interest is not shown in this branch of athletics. We propose, in order that more enthusiasm may be exhibited in this direction, that such a revolution be made in base ball as was so successfully made last year in boating. This year's University Crew will be made up almost entirely of men picked from the different...
...foot-ball take such a prominent hold on the public interest. We have proved in the first two that gentlemen can equal, if not excel, those who turn pastime into a profession; and there is no reason why the same excellence should not be attained in every other branch of sport. Thus it is that we regret the action of the base-ball managers, this year, in consenting to play with another college nine, some of whose men are professionals. It establishes a precedent which, if followed up, will inevitably tend to lower the tone of all college organizations...