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...last year of college life serves to fix the mental activity of the coming graduate more than any other of the four undergraduate years. It is, therefore, highly important that a selection of senior courses should include those which, at the same time that they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life...
...request for such a radical change in the college arrangements should be backed by a majority of the students. There is another objection to the petition which was not foreseen when it was started, which is that Easter is such a moveable feast that it would not do to fix the vacation by it. For these reasons we have withdrawn the book which contains the petition...
...undergraduate managers of contests with the assistance of advisers from graduates and representatives of the faculties could easily fix upon occasions so at least to interfere with examinations, etc., and best prove interesting and attractive to the friends of the universities...
...Teutons is said to have vaulted over six horses standing side by side; and another king, Olaf Tryggesson of Norway, according to an old chronicle of that country, was stronger and more nimble than any man in his dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn and fix his shield on the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held the third in one of his hands...
...Yale University boat crew is in a very bad fix at present. Stevenson has diptheretic sore throat and is unable to practice; Wilcox has gone home with bronchitis, and Capt. Rogers, Wells, and Gill are all suffering from very bad colds...