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Many of the present Freshman class have already passed this examination; many have learned enough French to pass in October with but little additional study. There are quite a number, however, who, never having studied the language, would do well to reflect now whether it would not be better for them to anticipate, by a little extra voluntary labor in the long summer vacation, a required course in a subject which may profitably be studied outside of college. It may be worth mentioning that in the required French, although no marks of credit can be received, marks of censure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD TO THE WISE. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...number of the Seniors who have applied for honors is twelve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...NUMBER of houses for our guests have been put upon the elm-trees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...writer, attacking - also by name - the Record editor, and making use of the lowest Billingsgate. The root of the whole matter is evidently the high and mighty Senior societies, Skull and Bones, and Scroll and Keys, the advantages of which, the Record proudly says in a recent number, could never be supplied by the clubs of Harvard. The petty political bickerings which keep Yale in perpetual hot water do not lead us to envy the system there in vogue. To an unprejudiced mind it might also seem that the time had passed when a self-constituted oligarchy should be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...there is one thing that has exercised the ingenuity of the Registrar and the Steward, it must be the assignment of college rooms. All the plans that have been tried and have failed could not, for obvious reasons, be described here; but now their number, like Brummel's neckties, must be increased by one more "failure." The various systems that have been followed at different times have many supporters, and it is strange to notice that a student's estimation of them changes as regularly as he passes from a lower class in college to a higher. The favorite plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOMS. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »