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...college governors. In the English Literature classes of Prof. Tyler at the University of Michigan, several years since, an alternative was offered his students by which those who wished could escape the terrors of examination by a simple but effective remedy. Those men who were willing to do a certain prescribed amount of collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe it has generally been the aim of the university at Ann Arbor, by oral examinations and such substitutes as this, to mitigate the evils of long written examinations. Other institutions...
...local option movement in Virginia is assuming formidable proportions, and is creating serious alarm in certain political circles. The question will be made an important issue in the November election...
...like enthusiastic thermometers," remarked a certain eminent professor lately, discussing the noticeable variations among those instruments...
...about me certain signs of an aesthetic movement. I see certain young men who are, no doubt, sincere; but I can assure them that they are no more than caricatures." As he looked around him he said. "Save me from my disciples!" and then added, "but rather let me, as Wadsworth says, "Turn me from these bold, bad men'." Mr. Wilde spoke very pleasantly of his visit to Harvard, and suggested how finely the statue of a Greek athlete would look standing in our gymnasium, and what an ennobling influence it would have there. He said he would like...
...that could afford him a pretext for expelling the editors. He then issued a number of the University, which purported to be the official sheet, and provoked the editors of the Academica, who fell into the trap prepared for them, and published in the December number of the Academica certain comments on the administration of the university, as represented by Vickers. In a secret session of the faculty, without affording the editors the opportunity of a full and impartial defence, Vickers succeeded in having them suspended. The editors at once disclaimed any intention to slight the faculty, behind whom Vickers...