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...there are 71 in the first, 54 in the second, and 32 in the third, while in the Harvard freshman class today there are more New-Yorkers than in the other two corresponding classes put together. Harvard, he said, has 213 professors and 1,500 students, and will ever stand ready to supply the intellectual wants of all who may apply. Touching upon the new elective system, he declared that it seemed to him sometimes that it was being carried too far. "You notice," said he, "what the club is doing with its past presidents. Sargent was our president...
...abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro and a Demosthenes they will both be united against Macedon. We all stand together against that senseless...
...declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that the time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose...
...cannot be said that the action of the Princeton faculty in the present athletic movement as thus far reported is very encouraging so far as Harvard is concerned. As it stands at present Yale has totally withdrawn from the business, Princeton is very doubtful, and is reported as probably opposed to the resolutions. As it seems to stand at present Harvard is expected to ally herself with some few of the smaller and less important colleges alone in accepting the new regulations. We do not know what grounds of hope the Harvard authorities have for hoping that the case will...
...would go. Now that the conditions are all made public and they learn the true state of affairs, it is to be hoped that they will still continue to be candidates. They have had as long experience as most of the men who have signed to go, and certainly stand a good chance of being selected. The only drawback is that no Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall...