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...events which will help to make this year a memorable one in student estimation is the new rule lately passed by the faculty, by which upperclassmen are given the privilege of substituting some optional course for conditions on certain. courses of freshman work, notably the required work in mathematics. To say that this radical change has been hailed with enthusiasm by the students most concerned in its operation is but a mild statement. As far back as student memory reaches, the mathematics of freshman year has been a thorn in the flesh to generations of incoming classes. It is almost...
...certain table at Memorial nothing but German is spoken at meals...
...Bagner-Wild system of drawing, now so much used in tennis tournaments, brings all the byes in the first round. This is done by drawing a certain number to play and giving the rest byes, so that when the round is over the number remaining in is a power of two, which always leaves an even number at the end of each round until the winner stands alone...
...that a determined student will make up by outside reading any failure in the instruction given him. This appears to be the point of the reply to President Eliot. The necessity of a liberal education is allowed. A possibility of there being a failure or a lack in a certain rigidly prescribed course is tacitly granted. But the college is not to be held responsible for this failure and its presence must be counteracted by the outside individual efforts of the students. But no allowance is made for the fact that where choice is possible it may happen that Greek...
Such an invitation as has been given by the Young Men's Republican and Independent Club, (it would be more accurately named Y. M. Democratic C.) is certainly a most preposterous one. We say this indeed, as a Republican, but we fail to see how one of any political party whatsoever can endorse the action of that club. A college class is in a certain sense a unit, and can be employed as such; but it is only a unit by reason of a unanimity of sentiment and action in its members. When, therefore, the individuals that compose it become...