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...Marks in Philosophy 1 were given out yesterday. The average mark reached was very high...
...Mark Twain and George W. Cable are to give a reading to the students of Oberlin. They have been before the students of several Western colleges, we wish they would come here...
...much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations may, and doubtless do, have their advantages, but the idea of giving a man the mark for his year's work on what he can write in a few hours, is simply absurd. Such a system begets superficial study, which is death to all true learning. We are glad to see that all this is being recognized, and that instructors are encouraging original, independent work, especially...
Turf, Field and Farm says: "Dr. D. A Sargent frequently interests and instructs those who hasten to or read his discourses on athletics, but the learned gentleman overstepped the mark when in a recent lecture on. The evils of the professional tendency of modern athletics," he asserted that rowing, boating, cricket and pedestrianism had their best day, and that base ball would die out before long...
...parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception to the rule and may be looked upon as one large school, so general is the influence cast upon it by its many colleges. Few places are more ideal or better fitted for a large university than this same...