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...Waldbridge, point; Cox, cover point; Griffith, right defence; Van Cott, left defence; Dusenberry, first defence; Clements, centre; Huntington, first home; Channing, second home; Jones, left home; Pipinsky, right home; Wolf, home; Carrere, goal. Our correspondent writes: "The team men say that the prospects for this season are better than ever before." "One word as to the general sentiment towards lacrosse-nearly every one is opposed to the game, and all refuse to support the team...
...gentleman. Certainly no man in college, if he possesses a spark of college feeling, would be offended by a simple request to subscribe to the university crew. We can assure the perpetrator of the deed that if his name - which he had the cowardice to conceal - shall ever be made known, he will meet with merited contempt from all his fellow-students...
...this is not true. When the required work in Greek was abolished at Harvard it was generally expected that the student of Greek would immediately become as rare as the mastodon or the dodo. But the Greek courses are still crowded, their students are more successful and enthusiastic than ever, and the Harvard Greek department is one of the chief glories of the university...
...required after freshmen year) is notoriously a failure. The instruction in rhetoric is ridiculous and imbecile, while the so-called "instruction" in forensics consists in handing in a few sheets of paper every two months and in being marked upon the same, not a word of advice or criticism ever being given. In themes, however, the written exercise is returned with some cabalistic pencil marks upon it. And this is all the foremost university in America does for the English language. It goes without saying that the ability to write one's own language clearly, understandingly and forcibly...
...complaint about the condition of the students in the Russian universities is today as well founded as ever. One or two universities absorb the few conspicuous men of science there are; the other universities are content with luminaries of the second rank; the intermediate schools feed on half-culture, and the elementary schools on the wisdom of drill-sergeants. Thus the boy enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better...