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...large number of men who have applied for honors, this year, shows that more of us are beginning to feel an interest in sound scholarship. There has been a steady increase, for the past few years, in the number of those who go into these examinations; and it is by no means impossible that a time will soon come when to graduate without honors will be as much a sign of a loafer as to take them now is the sign of having done hard work. Many a man graduates at present without honors who has made excellent...
...Cambridge. Apart from the discussion of Persian poetry the questions which this controversy has raised are questions of opinion in regard to the relative merits of Mr. Emerson's earlier and later works. We can only say of Mr. Emerson, in the words of the contributor to our last number, that he is "a man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, . . . . whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever." When we have said this we have said all that is becoming of us, considering...
...have received a protest against the proposed discontinuance of the study of Political Economy in the Sophomore year, announced in the last number of the Crimson. Our contributor argues soundly that nothing is of more importance for a man in this country than an elementary knowledge of economic science. The study of the prescribed course for the past few years has been little more than a hasty grind for an examination, and we suppose that to be the reason which has induced the Faculty to discontinue the study. But, however hasty the reading of the text-books has been, certain...
...interest has not been the sole cause of this, for, since the revival of athletics here, it has been decisively shown that to hope for success one must apply himself to but one kind of sport. This of course is the only correct principle, but it necessitates a larger number of men to keep up the interest in the several branches of athletics...
...material rather than pluck, do much less real work than formerly. Still the general effect of the new system is very beneficial, for by affording more opportunities for rowing than the old one, it keeps more crews on the river and is therefore likely to develop a larger number of good oarsmen...