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Cricket practice is still being held in the Cage, though it is hoped that the ground will be in fit condition by the end of the week for out-door work. During the long period of indoor batting and bowling, the squad has been reduced to seventeen men. No second team will be formed, owing to the fact that there will be no second crease available. It is hardly possible now to judge accurately of the men's abilities, with a view to picking a team, as there has been no fielding practice as yet. The men retained...
...Oxford a "scholar" gets his scholarship by examination before he enters the university and then holds it throughout his university career. The result is not only to make the scholarships more desirable, but to affect the schools which, in England, instead of "preparing men to satisfy the 'entrance requirements'", fit them to try for scholarships. So Professor Ashley ends by saying: "If the grants of Price Greenleaf Aid were raised in amount and lessened in number; if pains were taken to make them known in every part of the country; and examinations were held in every state of the Union...
Dean Smith then discusses the question of the shorter college course, and he is of the opinion that life is not long enough to justify an expenditure of time that prevents a man from being fitted for his life work until he is twenty-six. The college must be a place of freedom with responsibility. It invokes danger, but manhood and character cannot be developed without the element of danger, and it is, therefore, not a fit place for everybody. But to counteract this danger, the strongest influences are provided...
...year for an infirmary at Harvard, and later supplemented his gift by an offer of $2,500 a year for four years for the maintenance of the building, has given an additional $50,000. This gift is to be used by the construction committee in any way they see fit. The high price of building materials has delayed the construction of the infirmary, but the increased funds will now make it possible to break ground for the building early in the spring...
...always be filled by an able and patriotic citizen, zealously devoted to its purpose, but in the hope that through its teaching; the great principles upon which our national constitution is based, and in conformity to which administration should be carried on, will be vindicated and strengthened; that the fit relations between parties and government will be made plain, that the obligations of the moral law and of patriotic endeavor in party politics and all official life will be persuasively expounded; that the just relations between public opinion, party opinion and individual independence will be set forth; that an effective...