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This allows Juniors to take Latin 5 without taking Latin...
...representatives of five colleges met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, April 3, to make definite arrangements for the intercollegiate contest. The colleges represented were Williams, Princeton, University of New York, Wesleyan, and Columbia. It was decided that the first contest should take place January 7, 1875, in the Academy of Music, in New York City. There will be contests in oratory and essay-writing. The following judges were appointed: Oratory, - Whitelaw Reid, William Cullen Bryant, and Dr. Chapin. Essays, - T. W. Higginson, James T. Fields, and Richard Grant White. Letters of encouragement were read from President McCosh...
Ergo, Seniors in Philos. 3 please take notice...
...right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were to take the place of the present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that the quality of the work done would be greatly improved. With such help as this given to all the classes...
...would like to ask, Why can we not have some English sparrows in our yard, to guard against the depredations of the worms? It is true that the trees have been surrounded with tarred paper, and we earnestly hope it will serve as a protection; yet, why not take all possible precautions, especially when the sparrows are such an easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though...