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...head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education of those to be placed under their charge...
...correspondent writes to inquire what has become of the illustrious Snodkins! Wants to know if at last he has graduated out into the wide, wide world, and why he doesn't appear any more in the pages of the Crimson and Advocate? We suppose...
...Clipper draws the following moral from the Yale-Princeton game : "The contest with its kicking feature gave ample evidence of the fact that the door for improvement in the inter-collegiate code is wide open for a decided advance towards the English Foot-ball Association's rules, with the view of encouraging kicking more and contracting the field for rushing with ball in hand. The kicking in this match gave a new interest to the game, which the crowd in general fully appreciated...
There is a wide diversion of opinion among the ways and means committee-men with regard to revenue reduction...
...chief advantages enjoyed by students at Harvard is the wide range of study and research afforded by its advanced elective system. Here almost any subject, with its various modifications and departments, can be taken up, and under professors who have made life-long studies of their respective and special branches, pursued to the very limits of human knowledge. There are courses so admirably arranged and instructed that one, after spending the ordinary college course of four years in the pursuit of a special line of knowledge, finally appreciates his own incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope...