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...general explanation of this state of things may be found in the change of conditions, by which the whole body of the community has been raised by educational processes. Formerly there was scarcely anything which could be called education except among those who were in college or preparing to enter college. Now, the common school and high school courses open so much more learning to boys, that there is a far larger class out of which literary men are likely to rise. Formerly, at least in New England, any boy who showed an aptitude for books was pretty sure...
...preparatory schools are generally college graduates, and so bring with them the college methods. The speaker believed that there ought to be a difference between the quality and quantity of studies for those high school pupils whose education is to end in these institutions and those who are to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. A boy who could go no further than the high school ought in the higher classes of that school to be taught classical and modern languages, for instance, in a somewhat different way from one who was to enter the preparatory schools and colleges...
Holden, '88 has not left college to enter the Institute of Technology as reported...
...number of men have expressed their desire but inability to enter English VIII because of conflicting recitations. This subject of the hours for recitations is one of no little moment to students. There are some men who, at the close of their freshman or the beginning of their sophomore year, make a plan of their future electives, and frequently they are compelled to omit some very much desired course because the hours of its recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would...
...among the freshmen. From them, then, the college expects a strong delegation to compete for the vacant places on the team. A special meeting is held every fall for freshmen only, in which the winners receive suitable prizes. In these sports every freshman of fair physique is expected to enter. We urge eighty-nine to make its meeting a success by presenting a large field of entries in every event...