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Editors of the Yale Lit offer a prize medal for the best essay submitted before October 31st...
...loug vacation at Cambridge is increasing yearly. At first the only students who devoted the summer months to study at Harvard were those who elected the summer courses in chemistry, either for the purpose of doing up their work for the coming year, or because they desired to offer the work thus performed as a substitute for the chemistry courses required in the Medical School. Of these summer students, however, the larger number were students from other colleges, or persons not other-wise connected with the university. This, year, however, a large number of the regular undergraduates of the college...
...find in a recent exchange the introduction of a new sort of championship. Prizes are offered as follows: $10 for the best editorial from '87 editors; $10 for the best literary article contributed during the year '85-'86; $5 for the best poem contributed during the year '85-'86." The first thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry...
...shown her displeasure more or less all the time since. All our teams have suffered, but the ball nine most of all. Two of the best players were obliged to give up the game, and our pitcher has been disabled all the time. However, we won't offer any apologies. We were fairly out-played. We did the best we could, but it was not good enough; Harvard did better. It is hard for men who have seen Yale's flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must...
...those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that...