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...money-getting, the tone and manner of the students have not improved during his reign nor has the college advanced in literary culture. Such critics take exception to the perpetual stress laid on the getting of money, as though that were what the faculty chiefly looked for in the head of a college...
...result of the race, there are of course many conjectures, and many of the twenty-four possible orders are named; but nearly all agree in placing '83 at the head of the list. For second place no such unanimity of opinion is manifested. The sophomores seem ready and anxious to back their crew as against either the freshmen or juniors, while the two latter classes are very wary and cautious in expressing opinion. The crews are evenly matched in weight, and all seem equally determined to make the race a close and exciting one. The following is the order...
With bent and threatening head...
...deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies be placed in which every boy should be trained before entering college, as English composition, arithmetic, elementary algebra and geometry, modern geography and American and English history." There also should be placed "some language or languages other than English; but whether in addition to French or German...
...somewhat surprised to find that the "Cyclist and Wheel Annual" is entered here under the head of "Law and Sociology." What occult relation there may exist between the two subjects it is beyond our powers to divine...