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...present form, the Elective Pamphlet is little more than a bare list of the different courses, and it gives the least possible assistance to a student in selecting his studies. If the student be a Freshman, it is doubly hard to make a selection of studies that will suit him; because he knows few upper classmen from whom to get information about the different courses. Take, for example, the following from the Elective Pamphlet:* "NATURAL HISTORY 4. Geology. Three times a week. Professor SHALER. Course 4 can be taken twice a week, omitting the field work, if notice to that...
...would suggest that, in place of the present Elective Pamphlet, a descriptive book be published, and that, if necessary, a price be charged for it. Every professor could then write a description of his courses. Possibly, it would be a good plan to give "Syllabi" of every course in connection with the descriptive book. The description of Natural History 4, for instance, might be made on the following plan, only as much fuller and better as a professor would make...
...Trustees of your University have promised to present me with the old Gymnasium, if I will agree to connect University and the Agassiz Museum with a telephone, and lay down plank walks in the Yard. I have agreed to do this, and so the entrance to the tube will be at the Gymnasium, and the exit at the billiard-room of Parker's. The modus operandi is as follows: You sit inside of the tube on a seat like those of the rowing-machines, a wad is placed at your back, and at a given signal a Yale man kicks...
...only about twelve men practising in the Gymnasium. This does not look very encouraging. Heretofore many able men have not tried for the Nine because most of the places were filled by those whose equals were not to be found; this, however, is not the condition of the present Nine. It is a disgrace that more interest is not shown in this branch of athletics. We propose, in order that more enthusiasm may be exhibited in this direction, that such a revolution be made in base ball as was so successfully made last year in boating. This year's University...
...well-known sprinter, has improved so much during the past winter, that competent judges are led to believe that he will be the third amateur to place a 100-yard record of 10 seconds to his credit before the spring season ends. Those Harvard men who happened to be present at the Columbia Boat Club sports of January 3 and 4 will doubtless remember that Mr. Voorhees, with a handicap of 2 yards, won the 75-yard dash for college men in 7 1/5 seconds...