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...Yale man writes to a Western paper: "I do not sympathize with the government of the college here. Everything is required of the students under compulsion. They seem to be dealt with as so many rascals. I was going to say that a student could not be a man if he wanted to be. It may be that I am unduly prejudiced in favor of the government at your university, yet I believe to develop honest manhood you must put a man on his honor. This compulsory law does not extend over the seminary. Theologues are proper young men, supposed...
...third volume extends from 1871 to 1878. Great names seem to decline. One of the customs which seemed to have gained ground after the war was that of classes signing. This appears in 1866 and 1869, where nearly all of each class signed. The visitors' register has been kept in the Harvard Library for thirty-three years, during which about 1570 octavo pages have been covered with names, containing about 25 names to a page, making a total of about...
Ever since the Christmas holidays several rumors have been afloat concerning the disregard of training rules practised by some of the members of the freshman crew. Instead of decreasing, as time goes on these reports seem to be multiplied, showing that the non-training members are not settling down to hard work as they should. We are satisfied that these stories have some foundation, although they may be, and we hope they are, exaggerated...
...success of the society in one year has come up to the expectations of the most sanguine, and its possibilities for the future seem almost unlimited...
...instructors will give to their sections the results of the examinations as soon as possible. Of course where the sections are very large it takes some time to read over the books, and men must expect some delay in getting the results. But when the sections are small there seems to be no reason for any long delay. The custom, too, of giving only approximate marks does not seem to have anything to recommend it. When the instructor has the exact marks he might just as well make them known to the section, and so save a considerable amount...