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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When the addition to the Gymnasium is completed the Trophy Room will be about twice its present size, so that there will be place for all of the trophies, many of which are now scattered. In case that provision is made to have some one stay in the room while it is open, the cups which are now stored away will also be put on exhibition...
...Friday, March 1, at 7.30 p.m. All men wishing to become members of the Wendell Phillips Club are invited to speak at this meeting. Those who show special ability will at once be recommended for membership, but any man can have his name brought before the club by speaking twice. Freshmen may compete the same as others with the exception that though elected now their membership will not begin till the next college year. The subject for debate will be: "Resolved, That the Norwegian System should be adopted in Massachusetts." The CRIMSON for Feb. 18 contains briefs on practically this...
...point in the abolishment that seems bound to come in time, I should like to have information. The outside world, which admittedly knows a little about the subject, has severely frowned on the present system. The "student body" has almost unhesitatingly declared against the long examinations held twice a year. The opinion of the Faculty shows an emphatic tendency towards doing away with mid-years and finals. Our professors are constantly heaping blame on examinations as being a "barbarous survival;" Dr. James tells his classes that, psychologically considered, the present system of necessary semi-annual "cramming" could not be worse...
...took the degree of LL. B. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts and began the active practice of law. He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1859 was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The degree of LL.D. was afterwards twice awarded him, - first by Williams in 1861 and again by Harvard seven years later...
...Jersey' has become obsolete. To be sure this title is on official documents, is on the seal, and is the proper name of the institution. But it means little today. A great many people who are deeply interested in the welfare of Princeton would have to think twice to understand a reference to the 'College of New Jersey.' So far as we are aware the state gives the college no material help and it is a question whether any lustre is added to our fame by having the name of a state linked to the title. Certainly it suggests contraction...