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...have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford and Renshaw play, and they don't. As regards the subject of volleying at the net, in my humble opinion, perfect back-play will never beat perfect volleying, and a perfect volleyer will (though an equally good back-player) prefer to volley a perfect back-player, just as much as a perfect back-player will stand and volley a weak back-player, for the very good reason that it saves his strength, and is at the same time a winning game to play. There is not a doubt that a volleyer...
...declares its disapproval of the present system of groups of requirements and claims that the beginning made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room for a little more book knowledge of science, has proved mischievous. It deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies...
...subject taken up, while the remaining subjects of the course are useless to him. The extension of this privilege of substituting half-a-year's work in a full course for a half-course would allow many men to consult their taste in this way. Besides, many prefer to have their hardest work during the first half-year, especially as the last half-year is generally largely occupied by outside work in many courses. A general adoption of this plan, in courses where it is possible, would probably commend itself to the body of the students...
...Vassar correspondent writes: "What Vassar students think of co-education is hard to discover, but those of us who are here show by our presence what we prefer for ourselves. And yet I do not think we dislike to have other women do differently. Perhaps we believe in co-education theoretically more than we do practically, for it is useless to deny that it is easier to study books when there is no interesting human nature to study. Those with whom I have talked - and I think they are representative girls - think that after a college course is completed, when...
...open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former; the present education, however, rather tends towards the latter...