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...following is the substance of a recent lecture by Pres. Porter of Yale as reported by the News...
...Yale criticism upon the recent Yale-Rutgers game, in which Yale made 97 points to 0, says: "The Yale men showed themselves strong in passing, the rushers held well and got through quickly, the kicking was in general very good, and some fine runs were made. But the rushers did not drop on the ball quickly, the tackling was too high, as was also the punting. There was an inexcusable amount of fumbling throughout the whole game, and it took the men entirely too long to get up to their work...
...these days of rapid differentiation in departments of knowledge. The fact that so little attention is paid by the college and by the majority of professors to the giving of instruction and aid in this more material department of the intellectual life is perhaps explained by the comparatively recent emancipation of the college from former traditional and set methods of note and text-book instruction. It is but lately, since the introduction of the lecture system, that the subject of note-taking, involving as it does incidentally the questions of the systematization of mental methods and the acquisition of scientific...
...will take the best that the class of '87 can put in the field. The stories which have been emanating from Yale, according to the good old custom, since the beginning of the season about the weakness of their freshman eleven, can not be trusted at all, and their recent victories show the unreliability of all such tales. We would again repeat then that work must be done, and faithfully done, if success attend '87. They have received one lesson ; another would not be so trifling...
...recent number of the North American, Edward Everett Hale in his paper on the "School Forces," gives as one indication of the diffusion of culture among the American people, the large and increasing number of colleges in the country, especially in the West...