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...first of the Fay House Monographs devoted to a historical subject, the two former having dealt with scientific subjects. In the present monograph the author has undertaken to bring together a compact account of the whole subject of the escape of slaves, and of the legislation to prevent escapes. Beginning with colonial times the writer recounts many famous cases of attempted escape, including the little-known failure of Washington to obtain a runaway slave woman from Portsmouth, N. H., and Josiah Quincy's early defense of a fugitive. The book contains many of the important statutes and a full bibliography...
...club. Beyond the trial for candidates, however, nothing at all has been done yet. The responsibility for this plainly rests with the 'varsity club. It is true that the 'varsity club is just now very busy getting ready for the Christmas trip; but even this important work should not prevent its officers from giving some time to the freshmen. It is stated that there is an abundance of good material in this year's class, and this fact makes it all the more advisable that the freshman club be started in its work at once and be carefully trained. Managed...
...general method of the game and of the scoring, it was a surprise to almost every one; for the general opinion was that Yale's ground-gaining would be through Harvard's supposedly weak centre, and that nothing could prevent Harvard from scoring through the rushing of her heavy backs and Trafford's punting...
This, it was said, was to keep the tickets out of the hands of speculators. Thus the students at recitation had no chance whatever of securing tickets. It had been announced that not more than five tickets would be sold to any one student, as a means to prevent speculation, and the students all agreed that this was an excellent idea. But when the sale began men who were friends of the manager found no difficulty in buying as many as twenty-five tickets, and one junior bought one hundred and sixty-one. The result was that the tickets were...
President Elliot considers the changes entirely advisable. He thinks that routine work is too characteristic of the present grammar-school system due to the prescribed courses almost entirely, rather than to any fault of the teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with...