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Unseen they would make their escape...
...College. The predominant characteristic of the Class of Seventy-five has been its literary taste and tendencies; and while it has never taken so marked a lead in athletic interests as some of its contemporaries, it has furthered the interests of the college papers too materially to make even our sincerest thanks, now, any sufficient return. The Crimson, under its earlier name, received from Seventy-five an energetic and able board of Editors, such as few subsequent classes can hope to surpass. Not only as acting Editors then, but as contributors since, this board has shown its interest...
...their hinges, or dispensed with entirely. One of the best features of the Yard at this season of the year is the view under the trees between Holworthy and Grays. The sunlight on the grass in the morning and the slanting shadows of buildings and trees in the afternoon make a remarkably fine view, and this view would be finer still if the cedar-tree in front of University should be taken away during the summer, leaving a clear vista from one end to the other. It is impossible to speak of the appearance of the Yard without urging again...
...been the practice in American colleges, until within a few years, to make as many rules as possible for the guidance of students, and to expect them blindly to obey. In German institutions, on the other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter...
...universities. It gives a man every privilege and liberty until he abuses it, and needs to be disciplined. Nothing is left in an uncertain state. Those students who become sensible in the last part of their course to the failures of the first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than at present; and under this system it seems as if a greater number would become students for life. With the present system, if a student thoughtlessly...