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...student is allowed to contend in any public game without the written permission of his parent or guardian. But there are parents who weakly give their consent to the importunities of their sons, and then complain that we have trained them in idleness. The public press, as a whole, are telling the colleges very plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions we are making, not to stop sports, but to keep them within due bounds...
...recent commotion at Vassar seems to have been but a "tempest in a teapot," notwithstanding the reports which have been heralded abroad to the contrary. A small occurrence, dragged into prominence by a few newspapers, has naturally been magnified far beyond its proper proportions. The gist of the whole matter is simply this, that the present system of conferring honors is considered by many of the students to be unjust, since it frequently permits those to obtain honors who are not considered by the college to have earned them. This led to a mild kind of a revolt, which...
...Philosophical Class" has not been sufficient to dim the memories of the "High Stand Class of '83." The average expenses for the four years are given as follows: Freshman year, $863; sophomore year, $903; junior year, $994; senior year, $1,007, making the total average for the whole course $3,706, or a yearly average of $941. These figures are smaller than those given by several preceding classes. The highest sum spent by one man in one year was $5,000; three have spent over $3,000 a year and five over $2,000 a year. The contributions...
...grammars. What thoughtful woman, for example, in a good library with one year's quiet reading, would not absorb an infinitely wider and truer knowledge of either history, language or literature than was included in this school curriculum for four years? It is the letter that kills in our whole present school system; the spirit is needed to make alive...
...first rehearsal of the senior class song will be this evening at 7 o'clock in Boylston. It is very important that the whole class should be present...