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The present system of theme writing, while possessing many undeniable advantages, inasmuch as the students are led thereby to do some original thinking and useful reading, is nevertheless apparently at fault in some not unimportant respects. A theme is written by the student on one of several subjects assigned by...
Thus, instead of being seekers after a strong, original style and clear expression, we become copyers of a style which another has adopted as being in his own mind good enough for all and beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as...
We are glad to see so much enterprise in the college papers. The Yale News has now a new department, viz, the weather. The editors generally leave the beaten tracks of ordinary newspaper expression and transpose the "probabilities" into their own more elegant and flowery language.
A series of articles on "Oxford and English Education" well illustrates the traditional Harvard partiality for that ancient mother of scholars. A learned and enthusiastic vindication of classical studies is combined with this glorification of Oxford. Indeed, the enthusiasm for the classical literature of Greece, Rome and England displayed in...
The recent editorial on "hazing" in the Sunday Herald is in one sense encouraging. It shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular...