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This report of the catalogue is very gratifying for it indicates a marked advance in every branch of the University, a decided tendency to enlarge our Faculty by every good instructor we can find, and to offer a satisfactory and broader curriculum. No previous catalogue has shown the University to be in such an excellent condition...
...only criticism we have to offer is on the music in the Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...
...received word to the effect that the Yale Athletic Association will accept the offer to enter four men for a team race with Harvard at the annual games to be given by the Boston Athletic Association...
...present nature of the Annex gives them no experience of college life, of living in dormitories, dining in the same hall and many other advantages which add so much to college life. This side of college life which Vassar and Smith and the other colleges for women offer cannot be found at present at the Annex. Nevertheless, it is often dangerous for social welfare to form too many clubs at the same time. The enthusiasm of the moment which takes up an idea with great gusto can often carry it to an excess and fail to develop into honest interest...
...colleges offer as great a number of public lectures or lectures upon as varied subjects as Harvard. When one considers the number of lectures which have been delivered here the past few years this is especially noticeable. Whether it can be considered indirectly due in any part to the influence of the elective systems in giving us a broader view of the methods of Education may be a question; but it is certain that in the days of prescribed work, when the college pursued each year a narrow routine, public lectures were seldom if ever given. They are a growth...