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...Academic departments, and there has been no other arrangement made for this year. It is hardly possible that the definition of "undergraduate," made at a Boating Convention for university crews, can have been so stretched as to apply to a Freshman nine, yet we can see no other ground for their late action. Perhaps the statement in the Courant is misunderstood; if so, we should like to have it explained. In accordance with the action as understood here, at a recent meeting our Freshmen voted to challenge the Yale Academics alone. This will bring matters to an understanding immediately...
...charitable, and nearer the truth as well, to suppose that the man who complains is a man who really has found something lacking in some department. In so large a University as ours, and in a transition state besides, it would be strange if there should not be some ground afforded for fault-finding. But the very fact that a student criticises the methods in vogue here shows that he has an interest, albeit not a lively one, in the conduct of the college and in his own studies. Persons rarely indulge in criticism unless their taste and good judgment...
...College finances next summer would see the work begun. It is proposed to raise the roof of the dressing-rooms to double its present height, and to place the office, dressing-rooms, etc., on the second floor. This change would almost double the space for apparatus on the ground floor, and ventilators and bath-rooms could be easily arranged. The Government must too well appreciate the importance of a first-class Gymnasium to allow it long to remain in its present cramped and uninviting condition...
...Student (Urbana, III.) has copied - we say copied because it does not bear the usual "Written for The Student" upon its heading, but some other name - an article comparing Dickens and Tyndall, for no other reason than that they are both Englishmen, - a sufficient ground, no doubt, in The Student's eyes. We are sorry to see the matter so indisputably settled. How have our idols fallen! Before reading The Student, we had always regarded Dickens as quite a good author, - brilliant, interesting, and instructive. But no, it can't be so; for "Dickens's life was spent chiefly...
...Lowell's comprehensive description, makes the mistake of supposing that imagination is common sense turned inside out, instead of common sense sublimed. The writers of this style of poetry have been so well and so often satirized that one can hardly speak of them without trespassing upon ground already occupied; but, to distinguish them beyond a doubt, it may be said that, of this school, William Morris, perhaps, stands upon the highest round of the ladder of respectability, and Walt Whitman upon the lowest...