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...dids fair to result most disastrously to the college at which it is permitted. Our readers will remember how short a time ago it was that the academic world was scandalized by the desertion of one of the professors of the Boston University from the society of his learned associates, and his subsequent debut upon the stage as an actor in a play of his own composition This one case certainly was bad enough had it shood by self as an example of the innate depravity even of the most cultivated and most gifted professional mind- as a convincing proof...
...Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction a part of the college curriculum. At a recent meeting, we learn from the Era, "two systems were chiefly considered, the one now in vogue at Harvard, where the department is placed entirely in charge of a medical man, who is assisted by a small corps of instructors in gymnastics; the other is the Princeton system, in which a professional gymnast furnishes...
...pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life he may learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies...
...will relieve the anxiety of the alumni to learn that the impression conveyed by the semi-official announcement is not altogether correct, and that the college authorities will not undertake to interfere in any way with the entertainment provided at the reunions of the different classes. So the alumni can indulge themselves as of yore, with none to molest or make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there...
...learn that the directors of Memorial Hall have at last formally requested the corporation to secure a new steward for the association for the ensuing year. This is by no means a repetition of the vote passed last spring advising the corporation that a change in the management might be advisable, but the directors have gone a step further and have given their opinion that a new steward ought to be secured at once. We feel sure that their decision will be received pleasure by the great majority of the boarders at the hall, for although during the past...