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...colleges, the doctrines of Buddha constitute part of the prescribed studies. Since the revolution, however, few of the students has accepted the Buddhist doctrines, and most of them attend the lectures and recitations solely because they are compelled to. Nine-tenths of the students are radical freethinkers, and nearly one-tenth Christians. The works of Mill, Darwin, Buckle, Lecky, Huxley and Herbert Spencer are far better known than the Bible or the Buddhist works. [Cornell...
American colleges, it is claimed, derive two-fifths of their income from their students, while English colleges only derive one-tenth from that source...
...every day in the week, except Sunday, and at two church services on the Sabbath. In addition to these required exercises, class prayer meetings are held Sunday evening, and a general college meeting Thursday evening, at which from one-third to one-half of the students are present. The new system allows the student to cut one-tenth of the required exercises, e. g., seven out of the seventy chapel exercises this term, without rendering an excuse. The trustees and faculty are practically unanimous in supporting this number of services, but the students strongly object to more that one compulsory...
...undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time devoted to those purposes...
Lacrosse is making a hard struggle for existence at Cambridge University. We are hoping that the proposed visit of the Canadian and American lacrosse teams will increase the interest in this novel game. The Cambridge club numbers forty members, of whom at least one-tenth have played the game before. [Cambridge Corr. Varsity...