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...berate the colleges for their share in the evolution of the great American custom: "Whether Yale or Harvard was guilty of docking the "hurrah" of its first syllable, and making the syllables, "rah, rah, rah" do duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand the chests and cultivate the biceps of American youth, but these benefits have been dearly purchased...
...unable to attend them. The instructors have been selected without regard to the institutions with which they have been connected ; but merely for their special qualifications. Every student will be required to pass an examination by correspondence given at intervals, so that in this way the instructor can ascertain the progress of each student...
...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
...difficult to ascertain the present status of undergraduate opinion, which is in reality of little value, being formed in many cases for mere whim...
...have appeared in your columns two communications criticising, in view of the price of board charged on the term bills, the conduct of the Dining Association. It is not long ago that the practice of publishing the term-bill price of board began. Members used to be left to ascertain it from the bursar's bills, and few of them knew, even then, the exact number of weeks for the computation. I do not mean to imply that the price used to be concealed in order to cover up the affairs of the association; there was no such intention...