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...Cornell Sun says: "It is understood that in our university, practice in the gymnasium will be required of all members of the two lower classes. Undoubtedly some freshmen and sophomores will grumble at this and regard it as an infringement of their 'natural rights.' But a little reflection ought to convince them that this is the only manner in which those who are most in need of it will receive the benefit of physical exercise. So long as gymnasium practice is voluntary, a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will...
Modern Greece is full of college graduates. The South American republics have plenty of Bachelors of Arts ready to make pronunciamentos. But these nations do not carry the school system out properly among the lower classes, and their universities are wedded to antiquated ideas. [Critic...
...against college secret societies in many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill...
...into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower house of the Legislature, is a peculiar one, and is only permitted to come to the boundary line of Boston until the invention has demonstrated its practicability, after which the line may be extended to the heart of the city and thence undoubtedly to other suburbs...
...been making themselves vaguely heard during the year, came to a head last Friday in a meeting of the senior class. A motion was made that the senior society system "creates a social aristocracy, exercises an undue influence in college politics, fosters a truckling and cowering disposition among the lower classes, creates dissensions and enmity in every class, alieniates the affections of the graduates from the college, stifles the full expression of college sentiment by its control of the college press," and therefore that the class of '84 condemns the system...