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...programme of studies gives the information that the Sophomores, who by next October have not passed an examination in the reading of easy French prose, will be obliged to take, in addition to their eight hours of electives, two hours of required French throughout the year. This rule, considered necessary so that no one may complete his college course without having some knowledge of so important a language as French, is only temporary, and will not remain in force when French is required for admission to college (after...
...American can hardly profess to be a judge of the matter except with regard to the comparison between English and German scholarship), any changes founded upon them should be regarded with anything but a friendly eye; and especially should they be thus regarded, since the Englishmen, who as a rule are never prone to decry their own institutions, have attacked the present arrangements so vigorously that a royal commission was appointed, a short time ago, to examine the condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time...
Distinctly literary ventures which depend entirely on the support of the undergraduates have not, as a rule, been successful here until they found other attractions to recommend them. The Harvard Magazine was very heavy and very literary. As the present papers took warning from it and avoided that extreme, the result has been that they have met with the most perfect success. If the reading-room would in the same way take warning from "history," there is no doubt that, in proportion as it afforded liberty and comfort to its frequenters, it would increase both their number and their interest...
...SOPH. No; because both hold a cue-rule office...
...rule by which all the examinations for admission will be conducted in writing will be enforced this year, and there will be no exception of two of the examinations hitherto oral, as was stated...