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SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme III. will be due January 9. Subjects : 1. A Description of either a Gothic Cathedral or a Greek Temple. 2. "Patience" or "Pinafore" turned into a Narrative. 3. On the meaning of the word "Swell." 4. The Present Situation of the Republican Party. 5. The Comparative Merits of Base-ball and Foot-ball. 6. "Why I came to Harvard...
...cannot but commend this move to the instructors in charge of the other departments of the college. The retiring rooms in Sever are at present of but little use to any one, not even to the instructors for whom they are reserved. We feel sure if the other instructors would follow the example set by Prof. White in the Greek department, always the first to look to the interests and convenience of its students, that their efforts would be appreciated...
...interesting to some of your readers to hear something of the sentiment at Princeton concerning Yale's methods of playing foot-ball. The Courant in its last number seems to claim that Yale, instead of having done incalculable injury to the manly sport, has "almost entirely developed" "the present science of play." Such statements certainly rob Princeton as well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous game; she, chiefly, has made umpires as well as referees necessary...
Although there are many objectionable features about the present system of assigning marks at Harvard, such a vast improvement has been made over the system which formerly prevailed that we ought to congratulate ourselves upon living under the present regime. The earliest method about which we have any definite knowledge was to have marks assigned for every recitation, and at the end of the month a report was made out from these marks. Absence from recitations and absence from prayers were made to count against the delinquent. Then at the end of the year the classes reviewed the work...
...marking upon recitations. Thus it will be seen that there has been a decided move in the right direction, and it is not wholly outside the range of probability that some system of marks will in time be developed which will be as great an improvement over the present system as that is over the one which it has superseded...