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...lacrosse men, are now turned over to the cricketers. On rainy days the cage will be used as it has been all along. All those freshmen who have been practising in the cage, and also all others who wish to play, are requested to be on the north end of Holmes every pleasant day as soon after four as possible. Every one is advised to come out, if only for a short time...
...Greek and Latin which are scattered through the paper appeal, however, to a body of readers, to whom Latin and Greek are more familiar than perhaps any other subjects. The elective system at Harvard has made it possible for a man to drop his Greek and Latin at the end of his freshman year. The result is that a number of Harvard students are incapable of translating a Greek or Latin sentence, which requires more than the most elementary knowledge of the languages, after their freshman year. In Oxford this is not the case. Greek and Latin are kept...
...word was given at 5.17. '83 won the drop by four inches, but by a sudden heave '84 reduced this lead by an inch. This lead '83 succeeded in retaining till the end of the first minute, and with little change until the end of the second. As soon as the end of the second minute was announced '83 got in a huge heave and gained fully six inches, which it continued to increase till the end of four minutes when they had raised it to a foot. During the next minute, however, '84 gradually reduced this lead...
During the term about to end, the Austrian universities have had 11,265 students, of whom 5010 were in Vienna alone, which has, therefore, the honorable distinction of being the largest university on earth...
...should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second is entirely neglected there. At the end of his freshman year the student is confronted with one hundred and seventy-four (174) different studies - electives, so called - from which to select his four or five subjects for the sophomore year. Now these one hundred and seventy-four courses are divided among eighteen subjects or departments, so that...