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...Hereafter the college year will be divided into two terms, - one of sixteen, and the other of twenty-two weeks...
...hundred and sixteen College graduates now in attendance at the Columbia L. w School, forty-eight graduated at Yale, thirty-seven at Columbia, thirty-one at the College of the City of New York, seventeen at Princeton, and thirteen at Harvard. Of the one hundred and twelve College graduates at the Harvard Law School, sixty-nine graduated at Harvard...
...tone among members of the College has been everywhere apparent. There are some respects, however, in which we are still behindhand, and occurrences occasionally take place which border upon the puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen or seventeen who were in college when the societies were founded. Now, however, students are much older, and as the Faculty have abolished boyish regulations, we can see no reason why students should not abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing...
...schedule of studies for the next term has been arranged. Physics will be the only study required of the Juniors, and they will have German, Greek, Latin, Botany, Zoology, and Organic Chemistry from which to fill out the required sixteen hours. The Sophomores must take Latin, Greek, and Anatomy and Physiology, with French as a possible substitute for the latter, and Calculus for either Latin or Greek...
...country grows older, the young men rise into prominence less quickly. Time was when a boy graduated from college at fifteen or sixteen, and had his professional education or a good start in business before he had attained his majority. As college after college springs up, and higher education becomes more general, the number of graduates of the older colleges who become prominent men is proportionally decreased...