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...opinion which is coming to be held by so many nowadays that it cannot be laughed away. That it is a necessary reform that the present system of examinations should be abolished, is becoming more and more evident. That this fact is beginning to be appreciated by the public press, and to be discussed by them, is significant. The examination system has indeed been long established ; it has the prestige of the authority of European educators to support it. But in spite of this, it is fast proving itself unsuitable for American methods of instruction. The writer of the article...
...hazing" affair at Trinity College, if correctly reported, does seem to have altogether overstepped the bounds of fairness, not to say of humanity. Such actions can be called nothing less than brutal; and the sooner the college press states in plain terms the character of the deed, and its opinion of such actions, the sooner will it become no longer a matter of laughter among college men for barbarous tortures, bullying, and branding of arms to be resorted to as a means of vengeance by irate upper class men. There has been a time when hazing was a harmless...
...usually by pranks that are harmless and good-natured. In the case at Trinity the chastisement inflicted by the seniors upon their sophomore prisoners, seems to have been absolutely barbarous and inexcusable. It is of course possible that the reports of the affair were exaggerated by the daily press; and, before a final judgment is given, the statement of the students themselves should be heard. But, if the reports be true, it is high time that college students everywhere should take the matter of hazing into their own hands, and decree a decisive and final ending to what is becoming...
There will be a game of base-ball on Fast Day between the Riverside and University Press. All are invited...
...Park, "Lights o' London" will hold the boards until further announcement. Although some very pretty scenery is shown, the poor acting spoils the representation completely. Nor do we agree with the press notices that it is the most powerful of Mr. Sim's melodramas. We think it, on the contrary, very weak in both dialogue and action, although the greatest efforts have been made to cover the defects of the former with the extravagance of the latter...