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...cannot too highly praise the plan recently adopted at Yale, the particulars of which we learn from a Western exchange. "Dress suits," it says, "will be discontinued by the ushers at the Yale junior examinations." The plan of wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt...
...Boston probably as strong a dislike to what is called co-education, or education of both sexes in the same rooms, as exists here, perhaps even as strong as that which burns so fiercely in the breast of Dr. Dix. We should not be surprised even to learn that this dislike had as high an origin. We believe there are among the Boston friends of the movement many who enjoy that greatest of earthly luxuries, the luxury of knowing that one's own views on any subject are simply an embodiment of the Divine will. - [N. Y. Post...
...course, and this is practically what all of the good students do, and they select their studies with much thought and care. But the poorer students naturally do nothing of the sort. Yet with all its drawbacks the elective system has worked well, as far as I can learn, wherever it was introduced. The student does better what he elects for himself, and in most cases he chooses that which he can do best...
...convention of the National Lawn Tennis Association, held in New York on March 3d, was attended by representatives of only sixteen out of the forty clubs belonging to the association. Harvard was represented by proxy. It is with surprise that we learn that a motion prohibiting proxy voting was lost. With any amount of proxy voting allowed the meetings cannot attend properly to the discussion of important points, such as the rules of the game. We presume, however, that this means that the executive committee decides on the measures to be adopted, and the meeting merely endorses their decision. Among...
...dissatisfied with a mark puts more work into the course, and, as a rule, when a high mark is attained, the student feels ambitious to keep up his standing. A state of uncertainty is the worst possible state, and examinations can hardly be regarded as over until we learn their results...