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...your old flames from our school...
...preliminary catalogue just issued shows that the number of students now at Yale is nine hundred and fifty-eight, not including the students of the Art and Medical Departments. The Sophomore Class, which numbers one hundred and fifty-one, is the largest. The Scientific School has one hundred and ninety six students, a decrease of fifty from the number given in last year's catalogue. It is hoped that the admission of conditioned Freshmen will materially increase these figures...
...Faculty of the Yale Law School have introduced the marking system. The Courant speaks of the present privileges of Harvard Seniors, and regrets the indefinite postponement at Yale of "the experiment of appealing to the students' independence and exciting their enthusiasm for intellectual pursuits for their own sakes...
...reply to the extremely sensible article in the Yale Courant, quoted at length in our last issue, the Cornell Era has printed a column of school-boy rant, which goes far to prove that the muscles of the Cornell students have been developed at the expense of their intellectual powers...
...last few years the tone of American college feeling on this matter has been very healthy, and it is not agreeable to perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper-colored predecessors used to be huddled in their wigwams, such a thing might be pardonable. But in a college as old, as honored, and as Eastern as Bowdoin, the sense of the dignity of the name which Alma Mater gives them...