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...season continue as gloriously as it has begun, excelling our fondest hopes," says the News in relation to Yale's recent successes in base-ball. "We don't want Yale to be disapointed, but we think it rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the base-ball arena," comments the Princetonian. "Both Harvard and Princeton have shown themselves strong at the bat. The Dartmouth nine, we learn, is batting poorly, and Amherst has done nothing at all as yet, and does not seem over-confident. Brown boasts of having discovered another 'phenomena,' and quite raves over...
...Agassiz lectured last evening in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the Art Club and the Philological Society, to a rather small audience. The lecturer gave a general sketch of the ruins in Yucatan and of their importance, after which he illustrated his remarks by a number of rather faint views. He said that the ruins of Yucatan form the best example of the ancient civilization on this continent, and that from these remains a much better idea of the ancient people can be obtained than from the fabulous accounts of the Spaniards. Yucatan was the centre of a civilization...
...marking system, the extra work and trouble given the professor, going sometimes so far as to convert the instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together. They have...
...life - the larger universities of the country; but it is already spreading among the rural colleges. As the satire runs in the daily press, "A student is now regarded just like a human being, and is supposed to have the sensations and emotions of a man." Another result, or rather evidence of this course of affairs, is seen in the contest between the paternal and the non-paternal theories of college government; the former an antique survival, the latter an innovation of the new regime. If college students are human, they should be held amenable to human laws and must...
...adopted as being in his own mind good enough for all and beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as possible the various styles of the students, we think a greater range in subjects should be given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that we are obliged to write according to the judgment of a single individual tends to destroy all originality. If originality is of value...