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...Faculty of the Yale Law School have introduced the marking system. The Courant speaks of the present privileges of Harvard Seniors, and regrets the indefinite postponement at Yale of "the experiment of appealing to the students' independence and exciting their enthusiasm for intellectual pursuits for their own sakes...
...Yale papers contain a good deal of news. The Courant prints the following...
...Yale Courant has blossomed out in a most gorgeous, patent, back-action poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
...Yale Freshman Nine are working vigorously. They lately beat the Anchor Club of New Haven by the score of 21 to 1. The Courant says that the audience at the Prince-ton game, played at Princeton, seemed to appreciate the talent of the home club only, as their good plays were the only ones applauded. As this was by no means the conduct of the Princeton audience when our Nine visited them, we are inclined to think that the Princetonians, when they are entertaining " Romans, do as the Romans...
...Yale Courant justly remarks that the advantages of co-education are made more evident by such notes as the following...