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...make mistakes, but they also learn to remedy them, and thus learn wisdom at the same time. Better mistakes with wisdom learned than to remove the chances of mistake by that emasculation of student life which will surely come if college authorities attempt to manage all their affairs and keep them in leading strings in season and out of season...
...proper restriction on athletic sports is to be found in the requirements of the classroom. At Yale we get along well with our young men by allowing them to guide their own affairs, only insisting that they attend regularly to their college work, be obedient to authority, and keep good order. We are so well pleased with the arrangement and the resulting good feeling between instructors and pupils, that we do not propose to disturb our own peace or annoy our students by hasty and uncalled-for legislation, even if by our refusal to adopt such legislation...
...CRIMSON.-No small item in a student's expense is that of books. Even though obtained through the Co-operative Society, the sun expended on textbooks for one year is considerable. Now a large part of these books are such that the majority of students would not care to keep. In view of the approaching meeting of the Co-operative Society, I would like to suggest a way in which this society could further benefit its members in the way of books. It could purchase a quantity of books at its usual reduction, estimate how long a use each...
...Times of '49." Mr. Harding referred to the improvements that had taken place since his younger days, principally to those in the higher law-improvements due in no small degree to men who had graduated from Harvard; and he hoped that present and future Harvard men would keep up the imperishable glories of the past...
...action of the Memorial Hall directors in creating a committee which shall keep the student better informed of the working of the hall is a good move. The complaint that has been so often made that the system in yogue there is one whose workings are dark and beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals will now be hushed. With everything made clear, there is no reason why the hall should not prosper even more than before. The idea of improving the lunches will meet with approval from all the boarders. Hitherto the lunches have been considered the weakest part...