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...Clipper says that the recent action of the Harvard Committee in first prohibiting the contest and then permitting it under changed rules repressive of vicious "slugging," unfair "tackling," etc., advertised it, and was the real cause of the enormous crowd which witnessed the Yale game on Thanksgiving...
...WORDS ABOUT FRESHMEN."But by a recent stride in the cultivation of temerity they have overstepped the bounds of indulgence and brought down upon their heads the maledictions of the upper-class. [Argo...
...Adams' statement is likely to be fulfilled it is of course impossible for one not connected with the government of the college to judge. The statement certainly deserves considerable weight from the fact that Mr. Adams is a prominent member of the Board of Overseers and by his recent address before the Phi Beta Kappa has already taken the strongest stand possible in favor of the movement for the abolition of Greek as a requirement for admission. The report made by the committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address...
Whether we are suffering from an "inflated" marking system was a subject discussed by one of Harvard's professors at a recent recitation. It is this professor's opinion that we are. Doubtless other professors can be found who will not agree with his views. According to the former view, the present standard of marking has by slow abuse gradually become so inflated that now it is quite impossible to give positive marks on a just scale, which shall without unfairness indicate the exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks...
...recent opening of this vast Library by Pope Leo XIII. to scholars is an event indicative of the general advance in almost every direction, even in the greatest strongholds of conservatism...