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...recent article in the Congregationalist, entitled "American College Customs," Professor Fisher of Yale incidentally pays his respects to some of Yale's pet institutions. His remarks, coming from the source they do, have a peculiar interest, for they show that "Yaleism," in some of its forms at least, does not meet with universal approval, even among the officers of the college itself. We give below Professor Fisher's comments on two of the institutions in question...
...good number of upper classmen congregated on the floats. All of the crews are now comfortably seated in their shells, which are in the main rowed very steadily. The freshmen are showing up remarkably well, a fact which looks well for the future of our University crew; their recent race with the Unions has inspired them with courage and confidence in their powers. The sophomores are working quietly but steadily, and their boat is travelling remarkably fast. The juniors are suffering from the loss of their captain and stroke; they are rowing in good form, but lack life. The senior...
...Oberlin Review publishes a very interesting letter from Cambridge in which the writer takes occasion to comment freely upon the present condition of things and recent changes at Harvard. The elective system is touched upon and receives guarded commendation...
...difficult to give an accurate statement of the religious condition of Harvard University. Perhaps the recent account of the matter, which makes Harvard's religious condition about that of the world outside, is nearly correct. The faculty includes men of every shade of belief from the Agnostic and Pantheist to the Methodist and Baptist. And nearly the same thing might be said of the students, though I should be inclined to give credit to the report which represents the number of students from evangelical homes as continually increasing. The connection between teachers and students is much less close than...
...sometimes complained that too little interest is taken by Harvard students in any general election, such as that of officers of any of the college athletic associations. This is undoubtedly a just complaint, but in view of a recent performance at Yale, it may be doubted whether a moderate indifference in such matters is not, on the whole, better than the other extreme. The Yale sophomores endeavored to elect their class orator at a class meeting recently, but owing to the ardor of one or two of the candidates and their supporters, were unable for some time to make...