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...Vassar Miscellany.We dare not attempt, within our limited space, to boast of dealing justly by the three "literary" magazines, - the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Yale Lit. We dare not award the palm of superiority to any one, when all are so excellent. But the whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would...
...first number of the Harvard University Weekly Calendar has been received, and is all that could be hoped. Not only evening readings and society lectures, but Law School courts, society meetings, and Sunday services are announced. More than this, the whole complicated theme system, with dates and subjects, is to be printed from week to week; and this is an especial convenience, as the Crimson suggested some weeks since. Knowing by whom it was prepared, we expected this Calendar would be just what it is, - a programme of current College events indispensable to every undergraduate. The yearly price...
...number of courts is limited, some men would be unable to get any court at all, or, at any rate, have to put up with an exceedingly poor one. This does at first appear a little hard on new-comers, but it would be little different from the system pursued in the matter of College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room for one year and done nothing towards improving it, is considered to have a prior claim to that room against perhaps a dozen new-comers, who are willing...
...system of correcting themes seems too to be defective. The application of certain stereotyped words and phrases to all sorts of errors is extremely unsatisfactory. When we have been careful in framing our sentences, we cannot understand how those sentences are to be corrected, when they are simply marked with such expressions as "vague," "obscure," and the like, and no further explanation is given...
Under the system, as it now exists, we understand how impossible it is for each theme to be fully criticised in the recitation-room, but if the number of instructors were increased, each student could receive the benefit of separate instruction...