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...trouble alone with the manner and time of action. Several of the resolutions seem to be extremely objectionable, some on the score of impropriety, others as being very damaging to the interests of athletics at Harvard. The first and second resolutions are not particularly harmful and may do good, but the third seems to us to be the most pernicious to the interest of athletics here. It would seem as if it must be a concession to some other college, (such, in fact, is reported to be the case) as we can see no reason why such a measure...
...freshmen and sophomores at Cornell are grumbling because practice in the gymnasium is required of the two lower classes. The grumblers regard the requirement as an infringement of their "natural rights," but a little reflection, says the Cornell Sun, ought to convince them that this is the only manner in which the benefit of physical exercise will be received by those who are most in need of it. 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 do most of the work...
...late years there has been a strong tendency among our instructors to give as much aid to the men in their courses as possible, both by providing them with references for outside reading, and by giving information as to the manner in which their particular courses are to be conducted. In consequence the relations between the students and their instructors have become much more pleasant than they were under the old regime, when the undergraduates had a feeling that their instructors were trying to force them to "make bricks without straw," by giving examinations apparently destined to find out what...
...illustration in Grevin's manner in the last Lampoon was drawn by Clarke was one of the leaders in the excavations at Assos, and is familiar to many Harvard students as the translator of Reber's History of Ancient...
Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern school, it was beautiful and impressive, without being difficult to grasp. The orchestra played it in a masterly manner, attaining a wonderfully soft pianissimo at the close...