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...report which appeared in the New York papers, that the Princeton faculty had rescinded its rule forbidding practice with professionals, proves to have been premature. The position we occupied, however, when we supposed the report to be true, remains unchanged. It is certain that a large proportion of students and graduates at Princeton as well as at Harvard are strongly opposed to the strict enforcement of the rule. There has been a general inclination to try the rule and see how it would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when...
...adopted, as the committee propose, seem destined to inaugurate nothing less than a revolution in collegiate education in America. These plans include nothing less than the entire abolition of all requirements in Greek and Latin, as prescribed for admission, and the substitution of a scheme whereby a certain number of elective subjects can be presented as the equivalent of the present requirements. The committee declares its disapproval of the present system of groups of requirements and claims that the beginning made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room...
...among American colleges. That the changes proposed will meet with violent opposition from many quarters is not to be doubted. It may well be questioned even by those who are inclined to the most liberal policy, whether the college is yet ready for so important a step. What is certain is that whatever future moves may be made by the college in this direction will be watched with the keenest interest...
There is not much formality about the social life at Vassar, as all the students live in one building. There is always considerable fun and enjoyment in the senior class, as a certain corridor is their exclusive property. They have a class parlor, also sacred to seniors, which is used as a room for both business and social meetings and is finely furnished. Outside of the senior class, the pleasantest life is the parlor life of the students. A few girls room alone, but a great majority have parlors, - five girls constituting a "family," each with her own room...
...absence from the university, his giving so much time to political reforms and distributing his energies and those of the university over too large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing the worth of the possession of a certain conservative tradition of scholarship for any college, and also in giving warning how easily it may befall that the richest endowment may come to naught if a false policy ever for a time dominate in the councils of a college...