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...prepared from work in the second nine to step directly into vacant places in the university next year. Still there are certain advantages to be gained from class nines which cannot be so well gained from any other source; such as bringing out new men and extending a general interest in base-ball through the college. Would it not be feasible to have class games, something like those in '83's freshman year, for which, no special training or practice would be required, but which might, nevertheless, as happened before, prove close and exciting...
...Boarder" who inquires about the "crockery assessment" item is well illustrated by his statement that "the assessment has never been less than $100." He would need to look not far among past reports, which the auditor is always ready to exhibit, to find, in fact, that the general average of the assessments is about $90, to say nothing of months in which it is considerably less than that. If he had made such an investigation he might have discovered at the same time a striking uniformity in the four cents a week per capita in all the reports...
...recent emphatic condemnation passed upon the marking system by two of Harvard's most successful and experienced professors shows pretty clearly the drift that opinion in the matter is taking among progressive educators, and is especially interesting as indicating the probable views of the Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems...
...General Sherman is desirous of retiring from the head of the army after the present year...
...General Hazen's friends claim that he proposes to ask for a military court of inquiry into the charges made against him by Congressman Beltzhoover...