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...reasons unknown to us, was given up. We think it was in 1873 that the last Yale-Harvard freshmen race was rowed. The question that troubles the Harvard freshmen now, whether or not to row with Yale, is a difficult one to decide. To Yale the proposed race offers very evident advantages, while to Harvard it offers extra work and probably extra expense, without any great benefit that we can see. Perhaps the only argument that Harvard men can offer for the race is that it will be one more contest with their most distinguished rival. Such an argument, however...
...college men are needed in the profession to raise it to its proper ranks. Very few of the colleges, in their curriculum, give more than toleration to this very important study. Princeton, Boston University, Cornell, are valuable exceptions to this, and Hamilton was the first of the colleges to offer inducements for proficiency in the art of oratory...
...this Western contingent is increasing from year to year, - the result of which is detrimental to Yale. Mr. Bourne wholly forgets the fact that Harvard's percentage of undergraduates from the West is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, is growing rapidly and continually. What explanation can he offer for this, other than that which Mr. Page has already given...
...Princetonian says that Harvard and Yale offer prizes for excellence in examinations for admission to the freshman class...
...quite possibly in some courses it would be well to offer an alternative. We might be allowed either to answer a given set of questions, or to write on some topic covering a large part of the work. Such a plan as Professor Palmer's is, we hope, the small end of the wedge which may split to pieces our present examination and marking system...