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...support of the Association must come chiefly from each Freshman class; if enough Freshmen join, there need be no present assessment; there has been none for more than two years...
...championship is disputed, and with good reason, by Princeton. Says the Princetonian: "This fall, we have beaten Harvard and Columbia, and played a drawn game with Yale. Yale has not played Columbia, refused to meet Harvard, and had one drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence for this year we deem that...
...affirm that no man ought to be allowed to choose his own electives. The professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...
Imagine the professor examining another man; and thus disposing of him: "Memory, poor; mathematics, none; language, wanting; perspicacity, none; common-sense, the merest trifle. Why, upon my word, you are admirably prepared for the law school or the scientific school...
Claiming, as every student presumably does, to be more or less literary rather than practical, it seems strange that a more purely literary course has not been marked out for honors. To be sure, we have a course for honors in three sets of languages, but we have none for them combined. These courses for honors in languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words...