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...very best results. Several of the candidates have had an amount of previous experience which will be not only of great benefit to them but to the other members of the team as well. If the freshmen will only remember that Harvard base-ball stock is way above par this year and that it would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable...
...health, is here refuted by statistics derived from various sources. In one case, seven hundred and four returns made, it was found that seventy-eight per cent of the women graduates heard from, were in good health. Upon entering college, the health of twenty per cent was below par. After graduation, impaired health was found in only seventeen per cent, showing that the physical condition of the student became improved under the restrictions and requirements of college life...
...would not be compelled to lose a half year, but could go right on with his course. But this objection no longer holds in comparison with Amherst and Yale, for our requirements have, of late years, been raised to such an extent that they are now on a par with Yale's. We are assured that the good work is to continue. If Princeton continues to take a firm stand in favor of all manly sports, it will do much to increase her patronage from these sources, for, these schools are all warm supporters of athletics. Moreover, the athletic events...
...Naval Academy is a school not so well known as the Military Academy, and it is, perhaps, considered by some a school of minor importance and inferior aims. It is, however, a school quite on a par with West Point. The aims of the two schools are similar. The Naval Academy is designed to fit youths, presumably carefully selected, for the jonior grades of the line and engineer corps in the navy...
Examinations over, the students very naturally wish to learn their marks as soon as possible, except, perhaps, that small number of them who know that they are below par in a subject and want the marks delayed ad infinitum. In the courses in which there are only a few men, an early return of the blue books with the marks on them, is a matter of no exertion for the instructors. In such courses the longing of the students will be quickly satisfied, no doubt. But in other courses, where the men number hundreds, and one instructor has several such...