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...great complaint at present in this matter is one resulting from sectarian feelings. Catholics, or Jews are afraid to send their children to school where protestant religious forms are observed, and vice versa. The plan of having separate religious exercises for the different factions in the schools does not commend itself to us; for it would not only cause much more trouble and probably increased expense, but would also strengthen quite unnecessarily the feelings of disagreement among the parents of the pupils and their teachers. And so unless a single service can be held in which all can have confidence...
...stimulate an interesting competition. While the date which has been fixed is somewhat unfortunate, sufficient time will be allowed for any earnest writer to complete the work. This prize will serve as a valuable supplement to the Bowdoin prizes and offer a premium for excellence in poetical composition. Some complaint has recently been expressed that rhythmical construction is totally neglected in all our English composition courses, and that college poetry is wholly an affair of college periodicals. The Sargent prize will serve to elevate college poetry to official recognition, and offer an inducement to the college poets to pause...
Abstraction of personal property, i. e. stealing, is the latest and ever recurring complaint. Hats, umbrellas and books, all disappear in a most sudden and mysterious manner. Those who take other people's property, whether from absent-mindedness or not, seem to have no regard for time or place. Memorial Hall and the gymnasium suffer alike. But to speak seriously, things are in a bad condition when a man cannot leave his hat on a hook in the gymnasium and find it again after exercising. Affairs are just the same at Memorial. Books and umbrellas disappear as rapidly there. Moreover...
Again we must emphasize the complaint, so often made, that men using the library, and especially those who draw books, are guilty of the grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this...
There has recently been published a complaint from some of the colleges in the South and West concerning the low standing of the preparatory schools to which they are compelled to look for students. The low standard of scholarship which is maintained in many of the preparatory schools in the Southwest prevents the colleges which receive their pupils from demanding as a requisite for admission any very advanced course of study. And yet the true cause of the inability of Western colleges to compete in scholarship with the colleges of the East, cannot fairly be ascribed to the low standard...