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...think that it is enough that such an instructor should act as your correspondent of Wednesday suggests "in a fair and gentlemanly manner" in his classes. The man who take the position of a paid instructor of Harvard University has a reputation beside his own to maintain, and that, as yet, Mr. Ferris has shown no signs that he is capable of doing...
...officials whose duty it is to superintend and develop athletic interests, answer this question emphatically in the affirmative. Compare Harvard with other colleges and draw answers from the comparisons. One of our correspondents stated that sparring was a national sport, as fencing is in Germany. Do the German universities maintain instructors in fencing...
...with accuracy. And to this I reply, first, that in considering a university's system of education, the assignments of scholarships is an entirely incidental matter, and should therefore be subordinated to the general policy. If the system proposed serves the purposes of the university, that is sufficient to maintain it, and to overthrow other objections. And, as a matter of fact, the few highest scholars will get their deserts anyway; and the doubt only rests with the remaining applicants for scholarships. Here, indeed, decision will be difficult, but it will be rendered on a just basis, and will therefore...
...great credit, - with the greatest credit. Honors could be assigned to those standing in the upper classes. The great objection that will be urged against any general ranking system as this, will be the award of scholarships. This difficulty can be obviated by requiring those applying for scholarships to maintain a certain rank in their class work and to do other outside work on which they can be examined on the same basis and by the same instructor...
During the Christmas recess the Modern Language Association of America will hold a convention in Cambridge. A large number of delegates have been expected and the committee of arrangements are at a loss, how to maintain them in this great city of Cambridge which boasts of not a single respectable hostelry. The management of Memorial Hall has helped them partially out of their quandary by offering to admit the delegates to the hall, allowing them to occupy the seats of those students who spend the holidays at home. Inasmuch as the inclemency of our New England climate at this time...