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...regard to the advisability of intercollegiate contests within the province of the Athletic Committee. The committee has the confidence of both graduates and undergraduates, and is thoroughly competent to meet the hard problems which are before them now that their action is likely to be unhindered. The plans for reform which they proposed in the letter submitted to the Faculty will undoubtedly prove far-reaching and in a high degree effective...
...unfortunate that Harvard cannot by her own efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome. Yale men know enough of true sport to know that football does not now come under that head...
...review is the result of a conference held in New York last Saturday at the Reform Club, Twenty-seventh street and Fifth Avenue, of representatives of universities and colleges, for the purpose of discussing the advisability of establishing a journal that should cover all fields of history and make book reviews a special feature. Among those present were Professors Sloane of Princeton, Hart and Gross of Harvard, McMaster of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Stille, exprovost of the University of Pennsylvania; Professors Robinson, Munro and Cheney of Philadelphia, Dr. Friedenwald of Philadelphia, Professors Foster of Dartmouth, E. G. Bourne...
...Under present conditions, English A must be regarded as a necessity, though a very disagreeable one, and somewhat shameful. At once, then, the question arises whether the conditions might not be changed; whether boys might not in some way be taught to write English before they come to college. Reform in this direction has been begun. The most effective way of hastening it would be by greatly stiffening the entrance examination and refusing to allow an entrance condition in English. Such measures are more extreme, however, than Harvard can afford. They would result in dwarfing the freshman class and sending...
This is doubtless somewhat unjust to the elementary education as it is at present. The evils above mentioned have not been newly recognized, and already much has been done by earnest men to remedy them. But such reform takes time. Many classes must still suffer from the faults of their early training. There is promise for the future, though, in the steady decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone...