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Considering the length of time which it has taken to prepare these rules, we had a right to expect a perfect set; yet several small points indicate a lack of care in adapting them to our uses. Thus in fencing a 34-inch flat-bladed foil is required, though it is stated on good authority that there is hardly a foil of that description in the State. Rule 4 for vaulting refers to vaulting from a mat, a custom which is never practised here...
...that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best hours, for the greatest good of the greatest number; whereas the compiler of this year's schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three...
...right to talk, since you have had private instruction in Flirting 3 from Herr Winkerman...
...required by enforced attendance at recitations, and we shall be much surprised if a faithful performance of duty does not justify the confidence which the Faculty has reposed in the class. At all events, this regulation must have a fair trial, and we should like to know by what right a professor undertakes to annul or abridge this privilege, or to threaten students with conditions, merely because they avail themselves of a right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College...
...Bell of Merry Wishes" is the best of the articles, and is quite well told. The question of the propriety of the attendance of the ladies of a class at the class-supper has been exciting the Cornell mind of late. The Review thinks that it is all right, and urges them to attend; and the Era, of course, takes the other side. Five ladies of the class of '80 did attend the class supper, but remained only through the literary exercises. The Review has one last word to say to the Era about their quarrel, and then announces that...