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...Conference Committee has appointed a sub-committee to draft a scheme of an elementary course in common law to be added to the college studies. This idea can hardly be too highly praised, and, if carried into practice, it will meet a want long felt by every college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their...
...President Arthur is suggested by the Hour for president of Yale College. If that should come about the boys would want to get up at 3 a.m. to pray. - B. Post...
...higher standing of the classes as a whole, and as regards the individual members thereof, albeit these comparisons are not as satisfying as one could wish, owing to the inherent unfairness of our examinations; but as they are our only means of comparison, they have to be taken for want of a better. Another step towards real study, as opposed to mere efforts of memory and blind trusting to luck, would consist of abolishing all examinations, and substituting in their place theses to be written by the students on topics given out by the instructor and suggested by the course...
...course of lectures on the different professions will be delivered in Sever 11 on Tuesday evenings in February. They will supply a long felt want...
...choice, it is conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ. What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college? It is asserted that it loses influence through want of support by any sect. It appears to be indifferent to religion. There is a fallacy in these assertions. One may enthusiastically believe doctrine, and yet be opposed to forcing it upon another. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must...