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...society, whose aim is selectness, is being organized in the School of Mines. Its name will be the Beta Sigma Fraternity, and its maximum membership...
...admission of unmatriculated students. Upon payment of a moderate fee, persons twenty-one years of age can pursue such studies as they are qualified for without passing the usual entrance examination. A "Certificate of Proficiency" is given to such of them as obtain seventy-five per cent of the maximum mark in their courses. Some new prizes are offered to Freshmen and Sophomores for reading; and the requirements for entrance are increased a little, as usual. We are sorry to see that the number of men who have taken the various electives this year is not put down...
...expected of them this year. The vote of the Faculty providing for their case has been shown us, and the requirement is simply this; in each half-year's work, on every study, those who enjoy the privilege of voluntary recitations must get fifty per cent of the maximum mark. In other words, a Senior who has a hundred per cent next February on the half-year's work in three of his electives, and but forty-nine in his fourth study, loses his degree. Sixty per cent is not the average required, as has been reported, but the Senior...
...between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations" must obtain fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects...
...Yale Courant complains that the Faculty have sent notes of warning - resembling our "publics" - to the parents of every Senior who has failed to obtain on his first half-year's work 2.50, which appears to be about half the maximum mark. The Courant thinks the Faculty very inconsiderate of the feelings of the families of the unfortunate students; and it quotes from sundry parental letters recently received by Yale men, to the effect: "Don't disgrace us all"; "Is this the return for the money I have laid out on your education...