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...English and Irish "season." If a trip was made during our summer vacation there would not be any paying audience, as people would all be away from town. This makes it bad for college men, as much for us as for any, because the trip takes in the whole period of the annual examinations. Nevertheless, the men at Princeton and Yale hope to get leave of absence, provided that they are chosen, and it seems probable that our faculty would be lenient in the matter. There are to be no games with professionals but only with gentlemen amateurs...
...there. On Thursday last, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner delivered the first of a series of four lectures on "Literature and Life." This was received with much good will by a crowded audience in the Old Chapel. The second was on Saturday, and the other two are this week. The whole course is illustrated by selections from various sources. It is understood that the college is indebted to Professors Sloane and Osborn for these lectures. Mr. George W. Cable, who was announced for last Monday evening, and did not appear on account of his severe illness, is expected to be here...
...year,-a very considerable item in a man's college career. Besides this, they supply the need of those who are willing to devote half a year to some special branch of a subject but are unable to assume the extra work that a half course for a whole year really meant, for the new courses only require one examination...
...examinations for this half-year are nearly completed, and they have passed off as a whole with but little friction and unnecessary inconvenience. The college at large is to be congratulated on the results. But pleasant as it may be for those who have completed, or almost completed, this trying undertaking, a hard task remains for quite a number of men. It seems hard that the examinations in two such courses as History XII. and History XIII. should come on these two successive days at the end of the examination period. These two courses cover contemporary periods in the history...
These three reforms in the ranking system would change the whole influence of the rank list. Collegiate distinction would count, as it should, as an encouragement to the very best work...