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...astronomical observatory has become, instead of an instrument of actual instruction, a mere means of scientific research, and the knowledge of astronomical science has faded from the minds of the collegian. But still this survival of an old custom has remained to us, and what the former student was required to take perhaps a year's labor to acquire-a knowledge of the elements of astronomy-the present senior is expected to acquire in one evening. To such an extent have the modern methods of education superseded those of the past...
...fault in our courses of instruction that I wish to signal out, but rather an accident in our college life. It is scarcely fair to expect men of the average age of the American collegian to compete in strength or breadth of mind with the older class who frequent European universities, but there are other equally valid reasons for our shortfallings...
...College base-ball associations," says the Times, "find it very difficult to pick out a strong team to represent their respective colleges every season. It is often the case that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill...
...Butler's message the Chicago News says : "If some graduate fresh from Harvard had been elected instead of Gen. Butler the young collegian would have carefully consulted with all his uncles and his cousins and his aunts as to what it was safe for him to say. Gen. Butler labors under no such embarrassment. He has given us the youngest, sappiest, freshest, greenest message this country has read for many a day." "He gives Harvard students a sly kick, which they will probably find occasion to return with interest," says the N. Y. Herald...
...papers are well enough known to require no remark. But it is due to the Advocate to praise its high standard of verse. Its verses, particularly those of A. M. L. and L. E. G., are of high poetic level, aiming beyond the ordinary collegian muse. We are not overpraising when we say that the "Mari Magno" in the first number this fall is the prettiest bit of verse we have met with in this review. The wonted dignified conservatism of the Advocate is as prevalent in its verses as in its editorials, and sets it off in a distinct...