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ESPECIALLY there seems to be no reason why the requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

NOTHING makes the University more interesting to graduates who come back here after several years' absence than the preservation of athletic trophies and records. Any one who has visited the English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

THE promoters of the system of Honorable Mention, which was applied for the first time to the class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

THE arguments against intercollegiate boatraces between crews of Freshmen, as presented in your paper of the 12th and 26th November, appear to me unanswerable. They are the same arguments which some of us "old boys" of Yale have taken pains to impress upon several successive generations of new-comers, until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE FRESHMEN AT NEW LONDON. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

Though this communication is already too long, I would ask in conclusion that you reprint the closing words of the letter to which the Nation of August 5 gave up two and a half columns of its space. After demonstrating the falsity of the facts which several writers had alleged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE FRESHMEN AT NEW LONDON. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »