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...scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever...
...part be termed a special pleading. It criticizes without suggesting a remedy, unless by implication we take it to advocate the total abolition of inter-collegiate contests as a remedy. If this report is unsatisfactory in these respects how much more so has been the course and the various utterances of the faculty committee on athletics as an indication of the policy of the faculty. The course of this committee, it is with regret that we say it, has more than once been marked by inconsistency and disingenuousness...
...school possesses, in Athens, a good working library containing already the most necessary books of reference in the various departments of classical study; and it provides for its students a large reading room, which is lighted in the evening, and heated in cold weather. No charge is made for tuition...
...larger number of trained men to pick from. There are many other reasons which might be urged in favor of these auxiliary teams; it is a well-known fact that many good men do not come out at all as long as they see former members of the various teams trying for a place and so when a class, that has been prominent in athletics, goes out there are vacancies which cause much delay, owing to the inexperience of the men; this would be greatly lessened if the captains had the men of the auxiliary teams to pick from...
From recent New Haven advices we have learned further particulars in regard to the Yale crew and its prospects for 1884. The names of the various candidates from which the crew will be taken has been published hitherto. As is well known the famous "yank" of 1882 and 83, has been discarded and in its place the old stroke of eleven years ago, introduced from England by Bob Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them...