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...dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises, and the change of the language of the quinquennial catalogue leads us to hope that Latin may be abolished there also, this year...
...said that the Glee club is run by a clique." As a matter of fact the Glee club is run by a majority of its members acting through its officers, except in the case of important matters, which are brought directly before the club. We fail to see how anybody can call this "clique" management...
...members from all the principal preparitory schools in the land. These facts may be characteristic of other colleges as well as Yale, but nowhere to such an extent. And this was the case a hundred years ago. In the catalogue for 1839-40 every state in the union, except Indiana and Arkansas, was represented and also Canada, West Inda, Greece, Ireland and Brazil. The halls of congress have continually been thronged with Yale graduates, and in 1865 while five presidents of New England colleges were Harvard men, eleven came from Yale. At that time she also furnished twenty two presidents...
...Williams may be consulted by students in History 13 and 17, in the closed alcove from 2 to 3 every day except Saturday. On Saturday his hours are from...
...rule in question, though we are inclined to doubt it, may be a means of making money; but that is no defence. College men ought not to be compelled to join the H. A. A. in order to see college sports. Even the provision that no Harvard men except members of the H. A. A. can compete is unjust, since the association sends a team of athletes every year to represent Harvard at the Mott Haven games. A university team ought to be drawn from the university, with no restriction, and university sports ought to be open to the university...