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...possible to pick out a four from the class crews immediately after the class races. This would leave nearly two months before the regatta at Saratoga, which ought to be ample time to get a crew together, as the men will already be in condition. This is practically the method adopted at Oxford and Cambridge. There is no reason why Harvard should not be willing to be represented by a crew chosen in this way. Such a crew would be thoroughly representative of this style of rowing, and would (for the distance) very likely be faster than a four picked...
...from England by Bob Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them to win the race next June when they shall have become fully practised in his method of rowing. Much interest and enthusiasm is shown by the men. Several of them during the Christmas recess visited Philadelphia, the home of Captain Cook, trying hard, under his personal instruction, to forget the disastrous stroke used last year. Part of the plan to overcome the old fault has been...
...June admission examinations are now conducted simultaneously at Andover, Exeter, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, and they answer a good purpose and cost but little. This method of carrying the examination papers to the candidates, instead of obliging all candidates to travel to Cambridge, only dates from 1876; it has been gradually extended, and bids fair to become the normal method for large academies and for cities which possess schools capable of preparing boys for this university...
...plea that the colleges should not increase the "noble army of smatterers" he goes on to discuss the question of college government in the following terms: "The plan of the college is of great importance; but of still greater importance, practically, is the question of its theory and methods in its relations with students, their discipline in conduct and study. There are two opposing systems. The one considers the student still a boy, hedges him about with close paternal government, stimulates him with merit-marks for successful study, and punishes him with demerits for ill-conduct; ranks him by examinations...
...London paper gives the following curious statement concerning the method of examination employed in the "Flowery Kingdom": It is a curious fact that of all Chinese cities, Canton, though it is within eight hours of Hong Kong, and has, of all the places in the empire, the longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there...