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...their students mainly from residents of cities, who are familiar with vice, tends to lower the moral tone of the students; and he adduces many facts in proof of his position. There is undoubtedly much truth in this view. Large colleges certainly have a large ratio of dissolute-or, put it less harshly, wild-students than smaller institutions. But this can be truthfully said of their vices: They are more gentlemanly and less vulgar than those practised in country colleges. City students may drink more, and occasionally gamble; but they never give the Professors a charivari, or attack the President...
Turf, Field, and Farm, says; "Harvard College considers her prospects on the water for this year quite as good as last year, and perhaps better, and believes that the 'Varsity crew will work hard to put in another victory for the crimson...
...Psychological" drama by the professor of French at Ann Arbor, entitled "A Social Bargain," is shortly to be put upon the New York stage...
...would certainly seem a most obvious fact that to put extra work on men just before the examination time is a great injustice to them, and a hindrance to whatever preparation they may be making for the examinations. Instructors ought to be very careful before they decide to do this. Extra work can but have a discouraging effect on the men who are hard pressed enough anyhow at this time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There...
...view elective studies have properly no place in the college course; they are an infusion of the university idea into the college, and they have the decidedly bad effect of encouraging the American tendency to 'save time' by crowding general education into fewer and fewer years so as to put the boy 'at his work' at the earliest age possible. It is a heritage from the old idea that to become a good merchant a boy must not go to college, but begin by sweeping out the store. We give little enough time for preparation as it is, without college...