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...Grecian faction that it is unjust to the alumni to make the proposed change. For several hundred years the college has required a three-years' course of Greek before the degree of A. B. could be obtained, and if Greek is made elective. It would not be right to award the degree of A. B. to graduates who had elected Greek. If these graduates should receive the degree of Bachelor of Science it would meet this objection, but it is not probable that they would be satisfied with such an arrangement. The experiment of conducting a classic course...
...days ago we published a communication from an undergraduate who disagreed with our views on the subject of Mr. Emerson's position in regard to posterity as expressed in an editorial. We of course recognize the entire right of the one who wrote the communication to hold any view wha-soever on Mr. Emerson's position, although we must confess we believe Mr. Arnold's criticism just. As a proof that the criticism was unjust, he says that "the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced." This...
...warned him that bones broken at thirty do not heal so readily as at eighteen. Perhaps because he felt that he really was being passed by the rising generation. Perhaps because with his additional years, additional responsibilities, professional or domestic, have been thrown upon him. He knows he was right in giving up the grand old game for one or all of these reasons, but he regrets having done so all the same, especially when he is looking on at it. A man's foot-ball life is short, but it is very merry, and his memories and reminiscences...
...Baxter, '83, will probably be unable to spar in the championship meeting at New York in February, owing to a severe injury to his right hand...
...appointed evening made our way to the place of meeting. This was a large hall, hired for the occasion. The platform was decorated with flags, the national coat of arms and other emblems, and was occupied by two or three rows of tables. Down the hall, al right angles to the platform, ran fourteen long tables with about eighty seats apiece. For each person there was provided a pamphlet containing songs, and a mat for the beer glass. The gallery and a number of boxes under it, the latter only elevated a few steps above the floor and admirably situated...