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...Banner, Yale's illustrated annual, has recently appeared. The Banner is a publication similar in plan to the Harvard Index, only considerably more comprehensive and pretentious. Illustrations and illustrative headings appear throughout the volume of more or less merit. A catalogue of the students is given, followed by an extensive and useful directory of the college buildings, where the names are arranged by rooms instead of alphabetically. There follow the usual society and athletic statistics, as in the Index, including valuable statistics on the last college base-ball season, compiled by J. C. Morse, a graduate of Harvard and base...
...proposed by the faculty to introduce a system of honors, a system which Cornell has been heretofore almost wholly, and perhaps happily, without. Our only prize of special value at present is the Woodford prize in oratory, amounting to $100, and open to seniors. By the new plan two sets of examinations will be held toward the end of the college year, one of which will be for midcourse honors, open to sophomores, the other for final honors, open to seniors...
...Yale News advocates the establishment of a co-operative society at New Haven after the plan of the Harvard society. "We believe," it says, "there is even a better chance for its success here than at Harvard, where greater competition makes goods cheaper...
...apparent success of the debating "legislature" at Williams, conducted and organized after the model of Congress, suggests the query why the plan may not be again adopted at Harvard. It was badly managed during its short life here, but that it then failed is no reason that it should not be again tried and made a successful institution of the college. The idea is good; it only needs energy and good management to gain popularity and success...
...opening of each lecture in Natural History IV. Prof. Shaler reads the names of those absent at the previous lecture, with the number of their seats, so that all mistakes of the monitor may be corrected before the list of absences is handed in at the office. The plan is to be commended, as preventing all mistakes...