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...make as thorough a canvas of the alumni as possible. In a letter which Perry Trafford has just sent to a member of the New York alumni, he makes the following statements. It is probable, however, that the University plan which he speaks of will be modified in certain directions not involving any change of principle...
...Princeton faculty in abolishing supervision of examinations and, instead, requesting students to sign a declaration at the end of their paper to the effect that they have neither given nor received assistance, has given rise to considerable discussion by the press of various colleges. While this regulation has a certain merit of appealing to the honesty of every man and of tending to raise the standard of honor, it may be doubted whether this mere signing of a pledge will make any material difference in the amount of cheating. A man is no more on his honor in writing such...
...Resolved, That the undergraduates of the University of Pennsylvania, while ready to join in any carefully considered movement for the purification of undergraduate athletics, enter their earnest protest against the recent amendments to the constitution of the Intercollegiate Football Association, debarring certain classes of bona-fide undergraduate students from playing on university teams...
...Jonson to Westminster school, where he studied to great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel...
...considerable value. These results, however, are not to be published, but to be used by the Admission Committee of the College and the chief officers of the schools. By such an investigation the college faculty or some part of it will know the exact standing and value of certain schools, the quantity and quality of their work and the average proficiency of their pupils. As the list of schools examined will be published each year in the Catalogue, the public can know when investigations have been made. But as no further information will be given, the public will not know...