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...goal, and it would be well to make four safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown, thereby giving the attacking side the right to try at goal whenever the defensive side had touched down for safety four times. The code of rules also needs revising from beginning to end, especially in regard to the order of the rules, so as to make them useful in acquiring a knowledge of the game from the mere reading of the code. The game of foot-ball should certainly be what its name indicates, but under the Rugby Union as well as under...
...work on the window which is to be put into Memorial Hall by the class of 1880, has been repeatedly delayed by the sickness of Mr. LaFarge, who is the artist employed, but it is probable that the window will be in place before the end of the college year. The subjects selected are Homer and Virgil...
...marks at Harvard, such a vast improvement has been made over the system which formerly prevailed that we ought to congratulate ourselves upon living under the present regime. The earliest method about which we have any definite knowledge was to have marks assigned for every recitation, and at the end of the month a report was made out from these marks. Absence from recitations and absence from prayers were made to count against the delinquent. Then at the end of the year the classes reviewed the work of the year preparatory to an oral examination held by a board...
...their ideas of defeating Harvard might have met with a decided shock. Next year our foot-ball prospects seem still more brilliant, for we have promise of good players and plenty of support. The Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgiving day will keep the excitement up until the very end, so the team will in all probability receive encouragement and support without reserve. May '84 succeed in lifting Harvard a step higher in foot-ball and bringing back the sought for championship laurels...
...unrestrained and perfectly free elective system is unwise, just as much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore, we are to infer, unwise. Although there are many objections and many just criticisms to be made upon our present system, we cannot consider it a failure. Its adoption was a step forward, - a step towards the realization of the ideal American university...