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...most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic and utilitarian...
...common union of all-the last day of college association with the departing class. Why should this single opportunity to unite all in good fellowship, to dissipate any embitterments which may have arisen, to form a lasting remembrance of the happiest day of the college year, depend upon two games of base-ball? Should the misfortune of the few heap the greatest misfortune upon the many? Perhaps, however, this is meant as a grand reform; and the defeat of the nine, the crew, or the eleven at the hands of Yale, will deprive them of time-honored privileges...
...electives. Under the new system the number of hours has nothing to do with the choice of electives, for there will be no two or three hour courses. All electives are divided into whole and half courses. The distinction between whole and half courses, however, does not depend on the number of hours of recitation. The basis of the division lies in the amount of work the course is understood to imply. Thus it will be found that a number of full courses have only two hours a week, others even only one hour-e. g., one of the higher...
...challenge the educated world to prove any Heaven without life, reason, logic, order, harmony, genuine faith, belief in harmony with the organic and natural laws which govern, regulate and harmonize mankind in the present tense, heaven possessed in the human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend on the harmony of saving properties of the Deity for powers and their value is in their power. If the Faculty will give me some incouragement to write for the college papers, or a chance to speak in the transit of the Memorial Hall a few times before the commencement...
...admitted, indeed, that the officers of the association possess little power, and cannot be held responsible to any considerable extent for the failure of the hall, but it is important that what little power they do have over its management should be wisely employed. Much will really depend upon their action after...