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...exceedingly gloomy article on the subject of public and college "cheering," the New York Times takes occasion as follows to berate the colleges for their share in the evolution of the great American custom: "Whether Yale or Harvard was guilty of docking the "hurrah" of its first syllable, and making the syllables, "rah, rah, rah" do duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have...
...Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present undergraduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...candidate may present an essay on an economic subject other than here mentioned, provided he send in such subject to the secretary of the Finance Club for approval by the committee of award...
...Adams' address, unfortunately for the cause he represents, is calculated more to admit of sarcastic allusions to the education of himself and his family and to the poor instruction of years ago, than to open up a fair and thorough discussion of the whole subject. But among the numerous replies which that speech has called forth, none are so valuable or of so much importance as the one just published under the direction of a professor in our own university, John Williams White. Although Prof. White does not in any way either in his title or preface intimate that...
...contents of the book and gives a history of the events which gave rise to the controversy. Although Prof. Hofmann's address is mainly taken up with a question which touches but lightly upon the topic of most interest to us at present, in conclusion he discusses the principal subject-"that of admitting students to the Universities without the literary training which a German Gymnasium affords, and especially without a knowledge of Greek...