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...Class Secretary of '80 has thought it worth while to answer at some length the article in the last Crimson on the College Fund, I should like to define my position a little more clearly...
PRESIDENT PORTER of Yale, in his work on American Colleges, discusses at some length the "system of elective studies as now carried out at Harvard," and compares this system and its results to the old method of prescribed studies throughout the four years' course at Yale. It is hardly necessary to say that President Porter is strongly opposed to the elective system, and gives many strong arguments in favor of the old-timed course of four years of prescribed work in Mathematics, Classics, and Philosophy...
...Acta has published several papers on "Intercollegiate Slang," which are the most interesting contributions that we have seen in a college paper for some time. They will be finished next week, when we hope to speak of them at greater length...
...Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition of the principle that by vacations of a suitable length the minds of all members of the College are so invigorated that the work done is better than it otherwise would be. While gratified by the present extension, then, we trust it may be made permanent...
...Juniors shall, in addition, wear side whiskers, at least two inches in length. They will be measured twice a year, free of charge, by the college authorities...