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...case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty which is neither easy nor pleasant - their neglect must be due either to gross carelessness or to inexcusable selfishness...
...university, in its truest sense," he continues, "in America, is the need of proper preliminary instruction. We may have all the departments, but, when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former...
...their choice between the study of Botany or of Anglo-Saxon as "optionals." This year it being found that a majority of the class preferred Botany, and it being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system is not a success at Yale...
...date of the next lecture of the Total Abstinence League is as yet undecided. Either Mr. Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, will be invited to lecture, or Prof. James will be asked to review the temperance question from a physiological standpoint...
...Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands ill in the face of such facts...