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There will be a one-hour examination in Spanish I. on Wednesday, May 16th, in Sever 35, instead of the stated recitation of that day. The subject of the examination will be the Grammar (Verbs) and no text or blank books need be brought...
...subject assigned to the freshmen in Union college for their first essay is "The Qualities of a Perfect Orator." Probably no freshman will feel himself incompetent to settle that authoritatively and finally. - [Times...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The Yale News entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play...
...thoroughly convinced," they say, "that the methods of instruction and the thoroughness of the teaching of the various parts of the curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled, by any of the institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures on the subject. At other places there seemed to be a lack of a sufficient number of instructors * * *. In some cases the selection of studies and the attendance...
...then takes up the question of the value of the classics as a prescribed subject in a college training and asks : "What good is done the student by insisting that he shall do these small amounts of Latin and Greek? Is the mental discipline resulting from the reading of three or four hundred pages of easy Greek text, so very valuable as to be indispensable, so that no one should be allowed to take a bachelor's degree without it? Is the difference in point of sound education so great between one who has, and one who has not read...