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...action in publicly ridiculing the mistakes in composition which students made in examinations. With the evident intention of exciting ridicule, extracts are read of themes which have been written under great pressure, when revision was impossible. The instructor starts the laugh, and naturally the students are not slow to follow his example...
...papers and addresses by the delegates will be the chief features. Reports will also be handed in by the different college branches. Sunday afternoon, the 22d, there will be another meeting, when the Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston, will address the convention, and a discussion will follow. On Sunday evening the final meeting will be held to hear several gentlemen speak who are prominently connected with Christian Association work, and the convention will then be brought to a close. It was hoped that Messrs. Moody and Sayford would be present, but other engagements will prevent them from...
...Yale has at last organized a co-operative society, and it cost her a pang, no doubt, to follow the lead of her rival, Harvard; but her good sense perceived the advantages of co-operation which are manifest wherever it has been tried," says the Student...
...winter months, seems to us extremely objectionable. Some trainers are averse to any exercise in a temperature below fifty or sixty degrees; but, as the air in the gymnasium is very close and fatiguing to men on the running track, our crews may not find it beneficial to follow this rule. The great abuse, however, of the refreshing and wholesome out door exercise lies in taking it when the thermometer atands below zero. On the coldest day this winter, when few persons ventured across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms in Thayer and Holyoke could not be heated...
...order that the Institute can obtain a yearly grant from the government. The freshman cadets make a fine battalion of several companies, drilling in the gymnasium several times each week. At the close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry, natural history, biology, physics, or the general course. When his choice is once made, the student is required to follow it up through the regular studies pertaining to it, during the remainder of his course. There are, in addition, a few optional studies...