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There appeared in the New York Evening Post of last Friday a long letter from a Yale alumnus under the heading "Where Reform is Needed at Yale." The writer was much alarmed lest "Yale democracy" should suffer seriously from the yearly increasing extravagance shown in conducting the Junior Promenade. "From the modest affair of ten years ago," he said, "this promenade has grown to an elaborate structure with numerous accessories to manage, enjoy, and recover from, which requires the time and energy of perhaps a third of the students for a week, while the pockets of many of them need...
...Roosevelt of the Civil Service commission contributes a paper on the "Merit System versus the Patronage System" in which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming...
...Just as soon as men begin to come to any college exclusively for athletics, just so soon is it clear that athletics have assumed too prominent a place in the life of that college. Such has been the case with Harvard and now has come the time for reform. Her athletics have been established on too broad a basis. She has had too many games to play, and her team too much work to do. The interest of the college in athietics has been weakened by being divided among too many events. The time has come for some restriction...
...football controversy no doubt has hastened the reform, but at he same time it has put Harvard in a better position for making that reform thorough. The controversy as a controversy, is to be regretted; its results have been beneficial. Harvard is now in a perfectly tenable position, and after the excitement of the crisis is passed, we shall, as a college, regard the action of the Athletic committee more favorably...
...that is, to the recommendation that "No one should be a member of any university team who is not a candidate for the A. B. or B. S. degrees, or a special student in the college or the Scientific school," there can be no possible objection. It is a reform which must come ultimately, the sooner the better...