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...certain thoughts of his own, and certain comparisons not at all to the advantage of the English Department of Harvard College. He may be pardoned for repeating a sentence or two from a former article of his own in Vol. XV. of the Crimson : "If the Freshman year must consist of required studies, let Rhetoric be transferred from the Sophomore year, and let there be, in addition, some good elementary course in English Literature; give too, if you like, the writing of Themes to Freshmen.... In advocating a substitution of English for Mathematics and Classics in the Freshman year...
...step in the right direction has been taken : there is an examination in English composition required for admission to Harvard College. But we must go a great deal farther than that. If the Freshman year must consist of required studies, let rhetoric be transferred from the Sophomore year, and let there be, in addition, some good elementary course in English literature; give too, if you like, the writing of themes to Freshmen. This, of course, will necessitate a less amount of classics and mathematics, - studies to which no one can pretend to assign an equal value with the ability...
...plan is as follows : each class meeting and the championship meeting shall consist of the following nine events...
...that Germany until our time has been divided into numerous states and principalities makes it difficult for the student to get a connected idea of its history and literature; and any help in this direction is to be welcomed. As the course is to be one hour, and to consist of lectures, a large number will undoubtedly elect it. To those students who have already taken several courses in German, it will be valuable as a kind of review; and to those less acquainted with the language it will open to them a source of knowledge and enjoyment from which...
...Spaulding, Stewart, Stephens, Tilden, and Wagar, all of whom have had more or less experience previous to entering College. The Sophomores have seven men in training, in addition to those who played last year in the Freshman intercollegiate series. The nine of '83 has already been selected, and will consist of the following men: Jennison, C.; Smith, P.; Crawford, 1 B.: Ranney, 2 B.; Slocum, 3 B.; Heilbron, S. S. and Captain; G. H. Page, L. F.; W. Fuller, C. F.; C. S. Hamlin, R. F.; G. M. Davis, substitute...