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Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., is doing a most valuable work in solving the educational problem in the South. The curriculum and methods of Roanoke are patterned after the best northern colleges...
...marking system, the question of the examination system naturally arises. It is of course difficult to add to this subject anything beyond what is annually said in its condemnation by both professors and students. The thought that most naturally suggests itself, however, is one of wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus...
...every fair ball in succession. This rule has never yet been tried. In regard to the throwing, the past season's experience has shown that it is almost impossible to prevent the high delivery, especially in view of the prevalence of the mania for a swift delivery. The pitching problem is one not easy to solve, but it is about time that the batsman should not be placed at such a disadvantage...
...fourths vote is required for withdrawing consent to the agreement. The details of the plan have been elaborated with admirable clearness, and the experiment will begin under the most favorable conditions. A conservative college like Bowdoin in trying such an experiment contributes importantly to a solution of the difficult problem of college discipline, a government which ought to have in it a 'sweet reasonableness...
...they have succeeded in opening a new matrimonial market for the superfluous woman of New England. The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women, under whose protecting wings the Annex has flourished to its present stage of success, has done more to solve the perplexing problem of super-abundant women and decreasing marriages that is distressing social philosophers, than all the theorizing and sad predictions of which the talking folk have been guilty.-[Globe...