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Instruction is given by means of lectures, there being very few oral recitations or written exercises. All examinations are oral, and are held once a year. Religion, as a study, is compulsory, but attendance at chapel is not! As the students have no base-ball or other sport, they turn their surplus energy to the discussion of national polities, and so it happens that the universities are hot beds of Nihilism and other reforms. College societies and meetings are strictly prohibited and an assemblage of half a dozen students is likely to be dispersed. In this case by a sergeant...
...first visit to the Conservatory was made quite recently on the occasion of an "Informal Reception, Art School and Loan Exhibition of Paint tings," as the invitation read. Perhaps I had to fish for my invitation; but then fishing is not always an unpleasant sport. I caught a good sized fish; and with it came up such snags and grasses as a couple of sweet-scented cards, and trailing along after them a note. Of course I threw none of this booty back into the water...
...must be gratifying enough to the faculty, whose aim it is to get as many students as possible to take regular exercise. Aside from the faculty view of the situation, however, this wide-spread awakening in the base-ball interest, must re-act favorably upon the prospects of the sport next year...
...noble one, is, sad to say, but little known in our country, and but little in vogue among our colleges. Harvard, however, by receiving a large percentage of the St. Paul's men, who are for the most part, cricketlovers, has long held a prominent place in the sport, and will contest the championship cup this year with Columbia, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania...
...teams for the last two years in New York, will be debarred this year from contesting. Balch, '88, the victorious freshman anchor, will not be able to pull; so the position will probably be occupied by Dewey, '86, who has shown considerable proficiency in the sport...