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...leading colleges of America there is a growing opposition to the introduction of co-education, to the trial of an experiment that has failed, failed most dismally in almost every instance. The American people are so fond of novelty and so anxious to "give everything a fair show," that it seemed for a while as if this feeble fancy would be supplied with enough vitality to force for itself a position from which it would have been difficult, or even impossible to remove it. But the recent sensible and far-sighted conduct of many institutions of learning, and Harvard...
...recent editorial in one of our bi-weeklies it is attempted to show that the German instruction suffers in no respect when compared with that furnished in the French course. We are far from assenting to this, as we have frequently asserted that French is the best taught modern language that the curriculum offers. Can one find in the German electives the carefully graded courses corresponding to French 1, 2, 3 and 4? or does one hear in all the German courses a pronunciation equally good as that employed in all the French courses? Both of these questions...
...hope today to show to the Yale News how strong the interest in athletics is at Harvard, and what we can do in the way of records. Although there were numerous cases of walk-overs in the class sports on Monday and Tuesday, every contest today will be hotly disputed, and the results cannot but augur well for our future success. For upon the issues today will be based our prospects at New York, since our delegates to the inter-collegiate games compete in the university sports...
...captain, depends upon the willingness of the men to try for the seats. We think the crew should be commended for its condition after the reverses it has suffered, and "we kindly advise" the writer of the article to "wake up" (to use his own words), and to show his hearty interest in the crew in a way more effective than the one he has adopted...
...evenings are growing longer, it is to be hoped we shall hear more of the Glee Club. But two concerts are given annually, one in the fall and one in the spring, which together with the informal concerts in the yard, are the only opportunities within our reach for showing our appreciation of the Glee Club's work. They are said occasionally to visit neighboring town in conjunction with the Pierian Sodality to give concerts, but never sing in Boston or other places accessible to the mass of students. At other colleges the glee clubs are frequently heard, and give...