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...have played football but do not intend to play this year. Some of these men played half backs but were not successful in catching or kicking. Their rushing, however, was without exception excellent. Why cannot these men be brought into the rush line? Would it not be a good plan to appoint a committee of three to induce men to come forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 10/1/1884 | See Source »

...auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America, of fifteen of our chief colleges. This arrangement, though admirable as a temporary expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Classical School at Athens. | 10/1/1884 | See Source »

...great step forward. The incoming Freshmen Class is privileged beyond any class which has preceded it. For them the scheme of studies for freshman year, hitherto entirely compulsory, has been made mostly optional, the amount only being fixed; and Harvard becomes even nearer than before a real university. The plan which is subject to some slight changes as necessity and experience determine is here described in full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New System of Studies for Freshmen. | 9/29/1884 | See Source »

That was a wise plan which gave to the students of Wellesley College Monday, as a day of recreation. It was in self-defense. On every other day of the week there blazes over the college entrance the old legend "Let no man enter in on pain of death." If one desires to visit Wellesley the visit must be made on Monday. The reason of this strange choice of a "play day" is very evident. Wellesley is pre-eminently a college

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley College, | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

...coming year at Michigan University witnesses a new co-operative society there, something on the plan of the successful one here at Harvard. Not much can be learned of it as yet, but this is known, that there is much enthusiasm among the students for such an enterprise, and that almost all of them have signified their intention of supporting it. The plan calls for a membership fee of $2.00, and this is expected to cover all expenses, the goods being sold at cost price, with no advance. The superintendent is to receive $500 salary. The need of such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operation at Ann Arbor. | 9/26/1884 | See Source »