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First thesis in Phil. 4 is due October 21st, the subject being "The Ethical System of Hobbes...
...incoming Freshmen Class is privileged beyond any class which has preceded it. For them the scheme of studies for freshman year, hitherto entirely compulsory, has been made mostly optional, the amount only being fixed; and Harvard becomes even nearer than before a real university. The plan which is subject to some slight changes as necessity and experience determine is here described in full...
...University of Virginia, have a custom which Princeton would do well to inaugurate. It is the system of partial examinations for entrance. Suppose, for instance, a boy intends to enter Princeton, '89. He is already proficient in some branches, say mathematics. He takes the entrance examination in that subject with '88, gets a certificate stating the fact, and when he comes back to enter with his class, is examined only in those requirements in which he has not yet passed. The advantages of such a system would be two fold. In the first place, it would be better...
...Chauncy M. Depew will deliver the oration before the literary societies of Rutger's College. His subject is announced as "The Educated Man in practical Life...
...Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue in favor of opening it, in spite of the anathema carved on the tombstone. Frank Vincent, Jr., whose travels in Burmah and Siam make him an authority on the subject, will have a paper on "White Elephant," maintaining that a white elephant has never been allowed to leave Asia...