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...what is of even yet more importance in our relations to the educated world and the institutions of learning about us, is the higher standard of attainment required not only of those who enter here, but of those who shall hereafter receive a degree, - an average of fifty per cent for the whole academic course being now the meaning of Harvard...
SECT. 3. The amount to be raised by subscription shall be divided among the different classes in the following proportion: 35 per cent from the Freshmen Class; 25 per cent from the Junior and Sophomore Classes respectively; and 15 per cent from the Senior Class...
...biceps grasp the bat or the oar; let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve the prevailing dearth of contributions for the College papers, - nor does he do the least who leaves College with a general average of ninety-plus per cent, - but let us have no drones among...
...Faculty meeting on Monday evening it was voted that students conditioned in the required studies of one year be permitted to enter the anticipatory examinations for these studies in the ensuing autumn; their conditions to be removed on the attainment of fifty per cent...
...that "stuffing" which is characteristic of the season; but there is one subject of self-gratulation which is never wanting to Yale, namely, the great success of its graduates in political life, which it attributes to their college training in such things. It now appears that "nearly ten per cent" of the college-bred men, members of the Forty-second Congress, were graduates of Yale. If society wire-pulling is the proper school for a successful politician, let no one longer wonder at the venality of Washington...