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Considerable interest has been manifested in the question of the right of the overseers of Harvard College to pass the vote which is now on record, that in view of the disturbances which occur upon college grounds during commencement week, and the public scandal and evil to the college resulting therefrom, the corporation hold themselves at liberty to revoke the degree of any graduate of the university for participating in such disturbances, provided he has not held the degree for more than one week. Mr. B. R. Curtis has advanced, through the columns of a contemporary, an opinion...
...gloomy and bitter a view of the changes proposed for the college base-ball league. From information gleaned from private sources we had been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges...
Some of the faculty at Yale reserve the right of marking lower than zero, by means of minus signs, when the ignorance exhibited by the student is too abysmal...
...only rule likely to put a stop to that is to make so many safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown. Four touchdowns are equal to a goal, and it would be well to make four safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown, thereby giving the attacking side the right to try at goal whenever the defensive side had touched down for safety four times. The code of rules also needs revising from beginning to end, especially in regard to the order of the rules, so as to make them useful in acquiring a knowledge of the game from...
...necessitated to a high degree by the former. When lectures began to take the place of recitations and the courses became larger, it was found necessary to abandon the old plan of marking upon recitations. Thus it will be seen that there has been a decided move in the right direction, and it is not wholly outside the range of probability that some system of marks will in time be developed which will be as great an improvement over the present system as that is over the one which it has superseded...