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...good a record is not shown twenty years hence, it will be laid to the pessimistic effect of the Nation...
...these a lack of thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed time, and by handicapping the winners of two or more races. If the idea in these suggestions was carried into effect, there would be better training, better time, and more contestants than during the past. It is idle to expect good time or interesting races as long as the present system is continued. The same men, at every meeting, carry off the prizes with little exertion, while in every race...
...Faculty. The only objection, as far as we have heard, to having the list of examinations published thus early, is that it would seem like an encouragement to cramming. It seems to us that the early publication of the list would have an exactly opposite effect, - that it would do much to prevent cramming. If students knew the order of their examinations in time, they would carefully review the subjects on which they were to be first examined, instead of cramming up a mass of facts on finding, when the list was posted, that they had but two days...
...then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles, and oblige them at once to remove what is given them from the land. Then let us collect in a large heap that peculiarly formed furniture which exerts such a debasing effect on the only great thing in us, set fire to the mass, and henceforth devote ourselves, body and soul, to our minds. By these rigorous methods, and by these methods only, can we hope to avoid the treacherous shoals that we now know are before...
...resolution was made to the effect that the class directors be requested to have immediate action taken for the improvement of the fare at Memorial Hall...