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...dwell so long on the various setbacks we have received, not for the purpose of attempting to excuse the bad success of the nine, but to show that the causes of our poor record this year were, to a great extent, accidental. With one single exception - the rule against professional practice - all the causes have been practically unavoidable; and there is no reason to believe that they will be in operation next year. If, as is very probable, the anti-professional rule shall be made less stringent next year, there is no reason why we should not put into...
...York Tribune addresses a few remarks to "Parents and Guardians," in which it moralizes on the various weaknesses of our American colleges and comes to the conclusion that we need better primary schools - a conclusion with which we all agree, although not always acknowledging that better schools should mean no higher universities. Says the Tribune...
...boat club has been obliged to leave for New London with the crew about a thousand dollars in debt. Feeling the injustice of this, a correspondent, "J, '84," has asked us to take the place of the treasurer in his absence and to receive subscriptions from the various classes. Our correspondent heads the subscription with a substantial check. The HERALD gladly accedes to his request and will receive subscriptions for the boat crew of any amount from all persons connected with the university. We feel sure that there are enough men in college to raise a thousand dollars before...
...overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment on commencement day, were no longer to be tolerated. Hence there was a wailing among the festive portion of the alumni, and among the more grave and reverend portion of the graduates as well, for the alumnus, whatever his cloth...
Such is the story of commencement day, and such, it is hoped, it will ever remain. Last year the various class secretaries, who usually make the arrangements for providing the refreshments for their several classes, were politely requested to have nothing stronger than claret punch, or some equally harmless decoction, provided for the class entertainments. This request was complied with in several instances, but it was generally observed that the claret punch entertainments were neglected by those for whose edification they had been provided, and that the rooms where the old fashioned article was set forth were extensively patronized...