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...recent item to the effect that Captain Perkins, of the University crew, was about to organize an auxiliary crew in order to accept the challenge of the University of Pennsylvania again brings up the subject of forming auxiliary teams. There can be no doubt that it would be greatly to the advantage of all the teams to have these auxiliary teams to pick from; and the advantage would be in several ways, it would be an inducement to more men to try for a place on the teams as they would have some hope of playing in matches with outside...
...recent review of C. F Thwing's book on "American colleges" says: In his chapters on Morals and Religion the author draws conclusions very unfavorable to city colleges compared with those located in country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as the fact that city colleges draw 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...
...recent Yale banquet in Chicago, Prof. Wheeler said he classed himself as one of the most unfortunate men on earth-a teacher. In conclusion, he gave some interesting statistics about the College. His own ambition for Yale was, that the scientists should not crowd out the classics, nor the classics crowd out the scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped...
...practical and a scholarly sense, it is difficult to say. Harvard through its graduates and instructors at various times has always taken a leading place in the development of the study of the history of this country. The mere mention of such names as Bancroft or Sparks, and in recent years of Higginson, and Lodge, and Morse, and Henry Adams, are sufficient evidence of this fact. Why, therefore a subject of such growing importance should be now left to be taught in one brief and merely introductory course it is difficult to see. The general instruction given in history...
...books in the recent hour examination in Greek 3, will not be returned until shortly before the mid-year...