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...Union. Four students will each give a seven minute prepared speech. Then, and this is the principal thing wherein the Society differs from those of previous years, the meeting will be thrown into an open forum. Every man in the room will be urged to speak extemporaneously pro or con on the subject of the debate...
There is much sound and fury at Columbia this week as a plan to include a reading period before examinations is up before an administration board, and the students and faculty are hurling pro and con arguments at each other. The plan is in effect at Yale and Dartmouth, and the replies of the editors of dailies at those institutions to the Spectator's query concerning its success was answered in the affirmative...
...educational system in effect at Chicago University has been the subject of much criticism pro and con since its recent adoption. The system, briefly, is the omission of compulsory attendance requirements and the abolishing of all marks in courses. Students may take comprehensive examinations at the end of the "Junior" college course, which is a preliminary portion of the total four years work. Another comprehensive follows the "Senior" college course. Attendance and marks are disregarded. The courses are not designed for marks or for a minimum of knowledge to be crammed down the undergraduate throat...
...Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water, small sniffs of whiskey, benedictine, gin, tomato juice or absinthe. Between turns, bland oldtime Nikita Balieff makes impudent speeches in the "English lahngwidge...
...names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...