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...eyes of the other colleges, all of which played professional teams and had the services of professional coaches. Where the logic comes in adopt-such a course and yet retaining a professional gymnastic teacher and allowing a professional sparer to be in the gymnasium is difficult to comprehend. Yet the nine plays under professional rules and the games are umpired by professionals...
...study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life he may learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies offered the other day to women in Columbia College. The range of study in each branch consisted of bald text-books, compendiums, grammars. What...
...given in three courses, and with such a meagre amount of time devoted to each of the many problems of that subject, it is impossible for us to have a satisfactory explanation of all of them, or to become acquainted thoroughly with the details of those that we comprehend perfectly. The Finance Club has a splendid field of usefulness before it. It ought to fill out the work of its department by having frequent and active discussions on different questions in political economy. It is impossible for each man by himself to work up fully the questions that arise from...
...hard to comprehend" says the Clipper, speaking of the crowds that always stand outside the fence at Harvard, "why the different athletic associations allow so much money to slip from their hands, which could be expended upon the grounds and for expenses. It would be an easy matter for them to combine, and if Jarvis field cannot be fenced in, inclose Holmes field. A covered grand-stand is almost a neccessity, and the benefit to be derived from such a measure, both pecuniarily and in the increased interest that would result, is inestimable. As matters now stand, fully half...
...marks of the seniors have been given out, and the general fineness of distinction and finesse of the marking system may be seen from the fact that second place is distinguished from third by about one-thousandth of a point, a difference which only a very subtle mind can comprehend, and only then when an earnest study of infinitesimals has been made...