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...significance of this action by the students is better understood when it is remembered that there are no secret societies or visible bonds to unite the alumni to the college. This committee is designed to supply in part this lack." -N. Y. Eve. Post...
...Lampoon has sent around postal cards asking students to subscribe for the second half year. All that is necessary to do is to sign one's name to the card and drop it in the post. Surely this is but little trouble, and no one ought to fail to aid the paper in helping to gain the required 200 subscriptions...
...Harvard correspondent of the Evening Post, ascribes all actions of the Athletic committee to the policy which aims at giving " the greatest amount of exercise to the greatest number." According to this policy, he asserts that foot-ball and base-ball, limited to a small number of men, have been discouraged, while all gymnasium work, track athletics, tennis, etc., in which an unlimited number of men can take part, have been encouraged. It is needless to state that all thoughtful students at Harvard would heartily concur in any measures which would induce a greater number of students to take exercise...
...boating proves that the surest way of increasing the number of oarsmen is to make boat-racing an important inter-collegiate event. The class crews and class races were organized by the boat club of its own accord, in order to supply material for the university crew. The Post correspondent maintains that in base-ball and foot-ball, all interest centers in the university nines and elevens, that the class nines and elevens exist only in name. Finally, that the restrictions on athletics, such as the prohibition against playing with professional nines, will enable a larger number...
...advantages for post-graduate study offered by American colleges, are very few compared with those presented by English universities. It is to be regretted that such is the case, for the fellowship system in American colleges would be, in the opinion of high authorities in educational matters, a very efficient aid to advanced scholarship and to science. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and the Johns Hopkins University, are the principal literary institutions of this country which offer fellowships. Yale has seven fellowships, varying in value from forty-six dollars to six hundred; two are of the larger amount. The prosecution...