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...lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should be organized to meet the needs of the earnest and aspiring students rather than the infirmities and defects of the indolent. - Pres. Angell's Annual Report to Regents of Michigan University...
...main point of Prof. Ladd's argument refers to the comparative attendance at two colleges in question. The members of '85 at Harvard "'cared to stay away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard...
...what seemed to me the most queer part of it all was, that it was the earnest desire of the alumni to have the name of Yale College changed to Yale University. I do not know what men studying at Harvard will think of these remarks - I am rather inclined to believe they will not give them much weight. It seems absurd to call Yale a University, and then asking that optional studies may be altogether discontinued. Yale needs more elective studies, so as to give every man an opportunity to improve himself in a manner which he deems wisest...
...guard each entry of the dormitories in the absence of the proctors, and in all, seventy-five or a hundred to form quite an active colony around the wooden screen in the Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden of which is contained in these two familiar words, "Left behind...
...Harvard Lampoon designates the CRIMSON as the "Crime's Own." That is a good pun, Lampy, but isn't it rather rough on crime? - Courant...