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...correspondent writes to the Boston Advertiser criticising the recent action of the board of overseers in passing a vote to revoke any degree within one week after commencement, if cause of complaint is found against the recipient for disorderly conduct. The letter cites abundant legal precedent, and shows the absurdity of the regulation, as being illegal and impossible of execution-a criticism that has occurred to all, we have no doubt, upon first reading the vote...
...recent visitor to Williams College thus describes a recitation as conducted by the venerable Professor Mark Hopkins: "The class was one which had made a speciality of the study of the professor's book, entitled 'Outlines of the Study of Man.' The professor's method was as follows: He called one of the students by name and asked him what had been done at the recitation on the previous day. The student immediately rose and gave an interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed...
Besides his very vigorous denunciation of college athletics, in his recent speech in New York, Dr. Crosby indulged at the same time in wholesale condemnation of several other tendencies of modern university life and methods, forming, as a Boston paper puts it, altogether a "strange mixture of sense and dogmatism." Among other things cried out against was the elective system, the stale stock arguments being brought up against it, and aimed very plainly against the particular case of Harvard. "He declares," says this Boston paper, "that an American boy of eighteen is not competent to select the studies which will...
...Exonian claims that Exeter's recent game with Andover was won by the latter only through the unfairness of the referee, Eaton, former captain of the Yale eleven. A touchdown made by Exeter was disallowed by the referee on the ground of a foul, although, says the Exonian, members of the Andover eleven admitted that it was fairly scored. The Exonian's charges against Mr. Eaton are serious, unless they can be refuted...
...HERALD admits the justice of the strictures made in the last number of the Crimson upon the recent admission of an objectionable advertisement into its columns, and greatly regrets that such a mistake should have occurred. In extenuation we may say that a daily is peculiarly liable to such mishaps, which are often difficult to avoid. The insertion did not have the approval of the editors of the HERALD...