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...George Riddle is at present in Boston...
...upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have the late breakfast table in the little side-room corresponding to the auditor's room? To be sure, this room is at present occupied, but there is no necessity of its being used regularly, as there are so many vacant tables in the hall proper. This arrangement would almost completely do away with the many objections to the late table as it is now conducted. There would be no dust, no noise...
...generally is being done this year in rowing. This is surely the case with us ; and the steady work of our crews should certainly receive more recognition, and they themselves should receive a more liberal support throughout the college than can fairly be said to be accorded them at present. Our winter athletic meetings were certainly a success. But our correspondent's description of the enthusiasm and energy displayed at Columbia in the branch of general athletics will tend to show that the struggle for inter-collegiate honors has by no means been abandoned elsewhere ; rather that it is being...
...York Times says very pertinently of the recent scrape of the Williams College freshmen, that "the incident shows for the hundreth time the imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly...
...named. President Bigelow said he had no authority to make this proposition binding on Yale's part, but that it would be submitted to a meeting of the Yale Navy, and if there approved, Harvard's Boat Club would be expected to ratify it, and the members of the present Harvard eight would be expected to sign it. It seems likely, therefore, that the date of the race this year will be June...