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...answers may be grouped under four general heads: 1. As to making attendance at morning prayers voluntary; 2. as to making it possible to enter Harvard without the knowledge of Greek; 3. as to the ultimate admission of women to the medical school or the other professional schools; 4, as to the abolition of the marking system. A summary of the answers is appended; where the Greek and prayer questions are concerned...
Darwin Erastus Ware, '52. 1. "I think attendance at morning prayers should be made voluntary. 2. I think it should be possible to enter college without the knowledge of Greek...
Charles Edward Grinnell, '62. 1. "Attendance at morning prayers should be voluntary. This is according to a sound elective system, to a true morality, and to honesty in religion. 2. It should be possible to enter college without the knowledge of Greek...
...very long ago college students received no official encouragement to enter into researches concerning theatrical matters. But things have changed somewhat. Mr. Bronson Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...
Twenty years ago at Amherst College a sophomore, who is now a distinguished Western lawyer, introduced a new method of hazing. At midnight, accompanied by ten or twelve of his classmates, he would enter a freshman's room with a basket of young chimney swallows. When his companions had seated themselves solemnly in a circle, he proceeded to open the baskets and let the swallows fly. The fun then consisted in witnessing the poor freshman's attempts to catch them which often lasted until dawn. [Harpers Weekly...