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...both uphold--reveals the very matter which the undergraduates are most likely to overlook. The value of the Harvard lectureship which he mentions so enthusiastically makes us wish that some Yale alumnus would present a sum of money to Harvard to allow us to entertain regularly a Yale professor. Certain it is that the bonds of union between the two universities which the spirit of such a gift shows are becoming each year more strong; and in the future Harvard and Yale--the first and third colleges founded in America--must be drawn closer and closer together by the ties...
...plan the College asks the school for a certificate based on the amount of work the student has done, but it retains the right of testing the quality of the work itself. The candidate is only examined in certain fundamental subjects as English, Latin, or German, yet he must pass all his examinations in these subjects...
...which it is impossible to cope before these people can at least speak the language. Of course the large majority of these foreigners are of a working age, and therefore can not go to the regular schools. The city maintains night schools which are able to meet to a certain degree the demand for instruction in the districts where they are located. Outside of these, however, nine-tenths of all the instruction done last year among the foreigners was in the hands...
That a few men should have elected to break away from their dormitory affiliations and set up a crew of their own is evidence of a certain petty exclusiveness which crops up every once in a while in some branch of undergraduate activity. Surely there was nothing morally wrong about the incident at the boathouse, nor does it in itself deserve the recognition that its discussion necessitates. Athletics are, in their very nature an influence for democracy in the University, and for that very reason the cropping up of the suggestion of a clique there was unexpected. Harvard College...
...Editor's answer to the question, "Was John Harvard the Founder?" effectually lays the ghosts of certain historical anonymities who should rest with the anteColumban discoverers of America and the preAdamite men. It would be an ironical welcome indeed if the young Freshman scion of the Founder's family should learn from our lips that he is historically only a step...