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...their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly factitious and worthless these successes are a week after they will leave the school. The argument of the teacher is that the examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet...
...seven thousand dollars more will be required to give us the grounds we need. The recent success of our athletics at the Polo grounds should induce every Harvard man, whether graduate or undergraduate, to do his best to provide suitable grounds for the association. It is but seldom that the Athletic Association calls for assistance, and this should be an additional reason for giving the assistance when it is needed. We hope that every one who has subscribed will pay his subscription as soon as possible, and that the committee will meet with no difficulty in getting enough additional subscriptions...
...more be seen. It is claimed, and with a good deal of truth, that the frequent uproarious scenes in and about the yard on the afternoon and evening of commencement day are mostly attributable to over-indulgence in the alluring spreads that are provided. The graduating class is seldom represented in these boisterous gatherings, its members being kept too busy with their exercises in the theatre to allow of recreative feasting. The outgoing class will join the alumni at dinner this year for the first time in the history of the institution, giving its members in effect a year...
...exceedingly rare; intense devotion to the welfare of the fraternity here and elsewhere is the rule on the part of the members. Over all their operations a veil of general secrecy is cast; the location of the meeting hall is unknown, and the very existence of the fraternity seldom referred to by its members in conversation. Many fellows, moreover, have no friends outside of the fraternity and no more acquaintances than they can help...
...Acta says that "Columbia hopes to get on the water this spring two such crews as have seldom represented any college...