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...correspondent writes to the Boston Advertiser criticising the recent action of the board of overseers in passing a vote to revoke any degree within one week after commencement, if cause of complaint is found against the recipient for disorderly conduct. The letter cites abundant legal precedent, and shows the absurdity of the regulation, as being illegal and impossible of execution-a criticism that has occurred to all, we have no doubt, upon first reading the vote...
...this conduct on the part of Boston papers is can only be conjectured. It is well known that most of the reporters of college affairs are college graduates. The opinion has been advanced that the spirit shown in these accounts of games is simply a manifestation of the old complaint, Harvard indifference - this time a sort of postgraduate indifference...
...Magazine editors go off half-cocked is certainly amusing; but when they accuse us of being afraid to row them last summer then we "larf most immoderate." If Columbia had ever signified her intention of entering the regatta at Lake George, the university might have some cause for complaint, but as we never expected to enter that regatta or give the University of Pennsylvania any reason to think we would enter, all their charges are as "empty as the wind." As for rowing Princeton - but that is too absurd...
...example may have been imported into our American collegiate system from the English universities, the encouragement of a high faith in physical education is not open to objections of this sort. It is not yet time for American colleges to discountenance athletic sports and physical education. The complaint that Germany makes is far too likely to become our own, rather than one of an opposite sort...
...Many complaints have recently been made regarding the disobliging spirit evinced by one of the attendants at the gymnasium. We should advise all who have cause for complaint in this respect to speak to Dr. Sargent, and we feel sure that the matter will be remedied at once...