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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...
...think, for instance, that the following would wholly satisfy the captious Edwin: "Any member who is guilty of any misconduct or gross violation of any rule, or for non-payment of dues may be expelled." Or the following, where the sense is slightly obscured by a misplaced comma: "The foil must be thirty-four inches long, .... and be unattached to the hand or wrist by cord or string, to prevent "being disarmed." These, however, are mere minor points and scarcely worthy of mention...
...rule in regard to throwing the hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt...
...previous number of the Crimson extracts were published from a plan proposed to the Faculty by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention, and the subject has since been referred to in our columns. Instead of the present rule, which divides the persons recommended for the bachelor's degree into two classes, dependent entirely upon the average mark attained for the whole course, or for the Junior and Senior years combined, it is proposed to widen the field. By the new plan the members of the graduating class who, availing themselves of the elective system, have devoted their time...
...time has gone by when students, as a general rule, enter college with the intention of obtaining what is usually understood as a "liberal education." In old times things were different. That was the period when learning was the special privilege of the few, but now, when education runs through the public schools and colleges free to all as the water that satisfies the thirsty, affairs are changed, and institutions of learning must be guided by the progress of events, and conform to the present condition of the world...