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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-In a recent conversation with a graduate of Harvard in the '75's, now an instructor in a Harvard preparatory school, I listened to some very emphatic opinions concerning the recent athletic regulations. "At first," said this gentleman, "I could not believe that the regulations were anything but a hoax. I cannot explain them now. How can they be true? What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action...
...fact that the recent meeting of the Co-operative Society resulted in calling out so lively a discussion of matters of the greatest importance to the society, as it did, is an encouraging sign of the growth of real interest in the administration of the affairs of the society. This interest the board of directors will do well to stimulate still further by giving publicity to their own meetings and discussions, and by inviting among the members of the society and the college press the freest debate on any matters of general interest...
...good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarian could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin Review furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the Review, "the president of a neight, the guest of prominent citizens. He saw the large number of people that were upon the streets and inquired how large a police force...
...curious fact," says a recent writer, "that Darmouth was established with the same object as was Harvard: 'the education of English and Indian youth of this country in knowledge and godliness,' Of the several native who were members of the Harvard Indian College, only one graduated. The founder of Dartmouth was a Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, a graduate of Yale. One of his pupils was an Indian named Samson Occum, who afterwards because an effective preacher. He was Wheelock's prize scholar. Occum was a success, and Wheelock felt encoured, until in 1761 it has eleven pupils. More money was wanted...
...satisfactory understanding has been reached between the trustees of wellsley College and the town people relative to the college's recent petition to the legislature for power to increase their landed property...