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...lectures and conferences for freshmen, and to comment upon its progress thus far. Undoubtedly, if more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion of what is expected of them would remain with the latter. Prof. White's advice and ideas will certainly be carefully considered by his hearers. He began...
...collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe it has generally been the aim of the university at Ann Arbor, by oral examinations and such substitutes as this, to mitigate the evils of long written examinations. Other institutions have tried various other plans, with more or less to commend them. In some, what seems theoretically to be the most rational method of all has been tried; namely, the method of requiring original investigations or critical and synoptical theses to be presented in certain scientific and liberal studies instead of requiring...
...Professor Paine. These recitals not only consisted of selections of classical music judiciously chosen and artistically rendered, but were accompanied by remarks explaining the nature and design of the different forms of musical composition. Amid the numerous and valuable readings and entertaining lectures afforded by the professors in the various departments of the college, it is to be hoped that the author of the "Spring Symphony" may be induced to favor us again with occasional recitals...
Last evening a Yale University meeting was held to consider a proposition made by Harvard some time ago to Yale to participate in intercollegiate athletic sports of a general kind. Various objections were made to an acceptance, the principal one being that Yale had no preparation or chance to train that would warrant meeting Harvard at present. President Cuyler of the athletic association, Storrs of the university crew, and Badger of the base-ball team, spoke in opposition, and it was voted unanimously not to accept. That the college athletic standard may be raised, it was voted to have class...
...very well known that there are different methods of pronouncing Latin employed in the university by both instructors and students. In the case of the latter it is readily explained by the fact that the men come from various preparatory schools; but for instructors the authorities ought to establish a uniform manner of pronouncing the Latin, and insist upon strict conformance thereto. Either of the two methods commonly used among scholars should be decided upon, and this method should be taught to students as far as practicable. Much confusion and annoyance are caused to men taking notes...