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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The following extract from an editorial in the New York Evening Post for Nov. 18th, may be of interest to such of your readers as have not already seen it. Speaking of an effort which Cardinal Newman made, while at Oxford, to abolish a rule which forced every undergraduate to take the sacrament regularly, the writer proceeds as follows...
...Powers That Be may well be praised; there is also no doubt but that organized mischief-making and disturbances such as now and then break out at the services of half the colleges in this country, would quickly induce the Powers That Be to change their minds and abolish morning prayers. Again, the athletic committee, although they would be not a little surprised if we should claim to know as much about Greek and mathematics as they do, feel sure that they know quite as much about foot ball and kindred sports as we do, and that to consult...
...afford the best chance for improvement, it seems best to abolish compulsory work in freshman year, and this can only be done by a change in the work required from the preparatory schools. Raising the standard for admission would bring about several desirable results: It would bring an older class of men here from the schools; it would raise the scholarship both of the college and the school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite...
...Executive Committee of the tennis association has decided to abolish the right which has hitherto existed only by courtesy to the private ownership of courts. The association will take charge of the marking, etc., of courts, and all members will have a right to play on any court as soon as they have paid an assessment of fifty cents, which must be levied in order to meet the expenses of marking. No one will be allowed to play on any of the grounds of the college till this assessment has been paid. The association will give orders to have...
...board of overseers held in Boston Thursday, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Arthur Prescott Lothrop, A. B., as proctor; William Baker Hills, M. D., assistant professor of chemistry for five years, from September 1, 1884; to concur in the vote to abolish the professorship of ancient patristic and modern Greek, established by the vote of April 28, 1860. The vote of the president and fellows, electing John Williams White professor of Greek, was laid over under the rules of the board. It was voted that the annual report of the president...