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...proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with him. Now, examination-books are written for instructors; proctors have no right to read them, and those few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination-room...
...saying where. it will stop. German and even Japanese students will next want to try their hands, and the university boating clubs will not be able to call their vacation their own. If Oxford should choose to accept such challenges, the public will be glad of the sport and of the self-sacrifice which it entails; but if Cambridge decline to be bothered by the intrusion, we cannot blame them...
...undergraduates, are the children who sport with merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan...
...week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match is not very distant. Although we do not believe in keeping up a sport on account of an expected contest, we trust that an intercollegiate contest will be brought about for another reason, - on account of the interest the colleges take in the sport...
...Rugby rules have been adopted, and at present foot-ball is the leading sport...