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...past. Moreover, for this reason, it would be surprising indeed if Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among the first to grant either sex alike, official recognition of deserving merit; Princeton, in endeavoring to abolish the foolish hazing typical of the younger years of American colleges, has now tackled vigorously the subject of student conference, which has been so successful with us in opening the way for larger and lasting reforms in university government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/13/1887 | See Source »

...soon as men have proved their fitness for the position; by fitness we do not mean mere ability to write weak editorials on nothing, but to handle real, strong, forcible English, to write clearly and legibly, and above all things to have ideas. There are undoubtedly twenty men in either class qualified to fill these places, and we want to know them all, or at least know where to find them. Again, it is our honored custom to elect a freshman editor at the beginning of the second volume, immediately after the mid years. The contributions from '90 have thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/8/1887 | See Source »

...expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone by Capt. Willard and the nine, by which Harvard may return to her place at the front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1887 | See Source »

...Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a.m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes. Prayers will be conducted by Rev. Francis G. Peabody from January 6th. Mr. Peabody may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 1/8/1887 | See Source »