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...action of the faculty in deciding that the oration shall be delivered in Latin. It sounds as if it had been taken from some faculty report of half a century ago. Yet we think that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life...
Says the Hartford Courant: "The younger Mr. Charles Francis Adams not having found Greek useful to him either in soldiering, or in railroading, the Harvard faculty has decided not to require sub-freshmen hereafter to pass an examination in that language, tho' they may if they want to. It will be Latin's turn next, we suppose. Latin is a "fetich," too, and the decree has gone forth at Harvard that the "fetiches" must go. Perhaps some other things may go with them, but that is Harvard's lookout, not ours...
...Says the Courant, speaking of the junior promenade: Next Tuesday evening a beautiful young lady, on being shown the championship flags in boating, base-ball, foot-ball, etc., etc., (we haven't room to enumerate), will ask of her athletic protector, "When the other colleges have promenades what do they use for decorations?" Reply, with pleased smile-"Oh, Harvard needs no decoration, and Princeton uses a lacrosse stick...
...Yale Courant, describing the Peabody Museum, gives utterance to the following bon mot. "In a large room on the first floor, lectures on scientific subjects are frequently given, one on the evolution of a Princeton man from a lump of New Jersey mud being especially popular...
...game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...