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...chairman of the Committee on Admission has suggested in his report to the President that the regular Harvard entrance examinations in June be abandoned, and that those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board be substituted. Such a change could not fail to be of great advantage to the University, for the present system is much too restrictive and old-fashioned for modern use. To get into Harvard now, it is necessary to go to a school where the special subjects required are taught, and to decide on this College a long time in advance, in order to take...
...adopting the system of the College Entrance Examination Board most of these difficulties would be done away with, and the educational standards of the University would not be lowered. These examinations are broad in scope and amply test the applicant's general knowledge, without requiring the peculiar courses necessary under our present method...
...President Eliot's last report to the Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things...
Last year there were about 50 delegates who went from Harvard, another year some 80 went. The expenses, including car-fare, board, lodging, and program fee, do not exceed $20 for the entire time. The conference is open to all members of the University. Those who desire to attend the conference should send their names at once to Phillips Brooks House...
...tomorrow at 10 o'clock, which, on account of the difference in time between this country and England, makes the English team begin at 3 P.M. Each man will play one game at the rate of 25 moves an hour. The following men will constitute the American team: first board--L. J. Wolff, Columbia; second board--W.H. Hughes, Pennsylvania; third board--N. T. Whitaker, Pennsylvania; fourth board--L.W. Stephens, Princeton; fifth board--H. Blumberg, Columbia; sixth board--W. W. Parshley, Harvard. J. W. Alexander, of Princeton, is the substitute...