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Here we have the same injustice to those whose homes are at a distance. Suppose a man lives sixty or seventy miles from Cambridge, and does not wish to incur the expense necessary to going each week, yet wishes to go at irregular intervals throughout the year. He cannot. Unless he goes home on every one of the thirty-eight Sundays of the Academic year, he must limit himself to six. Is this fair...
...Sunday with them occasionally, but what one of them would be willing to entertain him every Sunday for thirty-eight weeks? Yet this is the only way in which he may visit them. I cannot conceive of a more absurd regulation. What possible harm can there be in a man's spending his Sundays where he pleases, so long as his family is satisfied...
...marks as soon as convenient. In this connection it is proper to call the attention of the Faculty to the fact that some professors are not accustomed to make public the marks of the mid-year examinations. This has always seemed to us a wrong policy. If a man has done well, a knowledge of this fact encourages him to work so as to do as well on the Annuals; if he has done poorly, he should be informed, so that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm...
...subject of elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self-styled "Universities" which are so numerous in this country have no right...
...time within which the sum must be raised have already passed. Within the coming fortnight additional exertions will be made, that the old-time struggle may be enacted again next June. It is needless to reiterate the claims which this matter has on the consideration of the College. Every man ought spontaneously to recognize the misfortune which a refusal to row our doughty antagonist would entail on our boating interests. - Record...