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...undertaken a canvass of the college on the preferences for Presidential candidates. While the result of a canvass of this sort cannot fail to be of interest as showing the relative personal popularity of the different candidates, it will indicate only in a very slight degree the political bias of the students. We think that most Harvard men vote more for principles than for men. Therefore the votes of most students will be determined largely by the actions of the two parties between this time and the time of the election...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, published by the senior class of Princeton College, is apparently edited at long range. The address of the gentleman whose name stands first on its editorial staff is-India. If the journal should ever be behind hand in matters of news or should betray an oriental bias in considering Western literature, its attitude would be sufficiently explained by this fact...
...elected by the matriculated students. The latter is an honorary office, and is usually conferred on some distinguished non-resident, sometimes on account of his scholarly eminence, but more frequently on political grounds. The voting for lord rector is generally taken to be a fair indication of the party bias of the students, who, in turn, are looked upon as fairly representative young men. The universities confer degrees that correspond to those awarded by our colleges...
...universities and her schools have for centuries been almost exclusively under the classical system. Canon Farrar gives his views on the present value of the system in the following words : "I must, then. avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole, and carried out as we do carry...
...side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games who is above the slightest suspicion of bias or prejudice. Every one knows that the umpiring of the freshman games at New Haven has been unsatisfactory, to say the least. The captain of the freshman nine should take care that no umpire but a professional is chosen, and, if possible, he should be chosen from New York...