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...five years or more. There the college has been treated more as a close corporation than is the case at Harvard. This fact led to a lengthy discussion in the columns of various newspapers some time ago, in which the insignificant number of bequests that had been made of recent years to Yale was attributed to it. Harvard, on the other hand, has laid open the minutest details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past...
...readable and interesting discussion of the time-honored subject of the practical value of a college training appeared in a recent number of the London Spectator. Its arguments and illustrations are forcible, convincing and temperate in tone, and, although written more especially for the English public, apply quite as well in America as across the water...
...graduates of other colleges in the upper classes during the year, there being now twenty-five holders of the degree of A. B. in the undergraduate department. The change of policy of the faculty in regard to anticipation of studies of the freshman year was explained. The result of recent conferences between the principal colleges, looking towards the equalization of entrance examinations, was stated to be in a degree successful...
...increase of special students, and their changed status under the laws of the college, is noted. The passage of most interest in the report perhaps is concerning the recent move toward the regulation of college athletics. Through the appointment of a standing committee of three the faculty has for the first time a direct responsibility for the character and extent of our athletics. This has resulted in a set of regulations by this committee. "The influence of the committee has been successfully used to reduce the number of match games of ball and to confine them to Saturdays...
...discussion concerning the admission of women into the medical school is explained. Temporary objections to the plan on the ground of the risk involved in new expenses in the recent transition of the school had great weight in defeating the measure...