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Some of the men who were dropped from the freshman crew quite early last year will be able to make the sophomore crew without difficulty this year. As a rule, the men are very light and they are not rowing well. To enumerate their individual faults would require more time and space than are at our command...
...Yale Faculty has adopted the following rule concerning examinations for removing conditions: "Whenever any student is, without excuse, absent from an appointed examination, upon conditions or fails to pass satisfactorily such condition examination, his name shall be reported to the treasurer of the University. A charge of $5 for each absence or failure shall be made in the term bill of the student and the amounts so collected shall be credited to the fund for paying the tuition of needy students...
...report for the passed year the Dean of the Graduate School treats at some length the subject of the requirements for the degree of A. M. As the rule now reads, anyone taking one year's additional courses at Cambridge, provided the courses are approved and passed with credit, can obtain a degree of A. M. This is a great improvement over the custom which lasted up to 1872 of allowing anyone taking an A. B. degree and paying a small fee to obtain without further study, the degree of Master of Arts. Under the old system...
...legislative bodies which have functions similar to those of the two houses of Congress. There is, however, no judicial department in the cities. In the municipal government, then, we have also a division of responsibility but there is not the same necessity for it. Our city governments as a rule, are not inefficient but the rule has exceptions. There is a lack of system and the various departments clash. Public institutions are much more expensive and less efficient than the same institutions would be were they in private hands. Owing to the general inefficiency of municipal government, it is practically...
...Billion Dollar Congress, but I say a spirit of too great economy is not good for a country any more than it is for a great university and I am glad that the President of the university has not acted on that plan. Parsimony ought not to be the rule. Appropriation should be made in a broad and business like way. The 50th Congress approached too near the starvation limit, when they let the lights go out in government buildings and let the army and navy officers go unpaid. I take it that there are a few sons of Harvard...