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...Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students, we have infinitely better opportunities for judging the effect of this system than even your watchful care can give you, we earnestly desire that the present system of honors should be abolished...
...certainly one thousand dollars in college which could be subscribed to the crew without serious inconvenience to the subscribers, and I hope it will be done. I therefore ask the HERALD to be kind enough to receive cash subscriptions for the crew, and to put some notice to that effect in its columns. Subscriptions should be acknowledged by receipt and notice of the amounts subscribed by each class be published from time to time, and any legitimate expenses be subtracted from the receipts. Men who have already subscribed should not let this influence them, but should subscribe again if possible...
...know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...
...York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality...
...seldom represented in these boisterous gatherings, its members being kept too busy with their exercises in the theatre to allow of recreative feasting. The outgoing class will join the alumni at dinner this year for the first time in the history of the institution, giving its members in effect a year's advancement toward the dignified maturity so prized by the individual alumnus. - [Transcript...