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...plan is being discussed for a combination of some of the best lacrosse players in the United States to play exhibition games in England. It is not probable that any of the Harvard players who have been invited will be able...
...establish a pleasant and elegant club-house where students and graduates can meet in social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems to us so admirable and even practicable that we are tempted to suggest that a similar one be undertaken at Harvard, especially since such advantageous quarters could probably soon be obtained when the new Law School building is completed and Dane Hall be destined to hear no more the voices...
...Haven correspondent of the New York Times may be of interest: "Their new shell has been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here, it is to be feared, will be discovered the weakness of the Yale crew. The crew do not observe...
...intention furthermore to make, ultimately, our lecture courses twofold, offering first, to regularly matriculated students the broadest opportunities for literary and philological culture, and, secondly, to open channels of influence between the college and the world without, through popular courses of lectures, adhering in the man to the plan pursued in all the universities of Europe...
...suggested in a Southern journal that a better plan than lies in compulsory education is to employ excellent teachers and to pay them, in addition to their salaries, a percentage on every unwilling or careless child whom they are able to coax into school. It is further suggested that a discount should be imposed on them for every child dropping out of the school, and that their salaries should be discontinued if they fail to keep up their schools...