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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small class is better than a large one, as it puts the men under the personal supervision of the instructors, and through their contact with them makes them much better morally and mentally. Much of Yale's success in athletics may be attributed to the good class feeling that existed and does still exist. The whole-soulness with which every class at Yale enters upon its duties is refreshing; but even this advantage which Yale possesses is rapidly disappearing, the large classes that now enter tending to do away with it. Many a graduate of our large colleges leaves them...
...which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this very absence of outside attractions. Oxford presents a birds-eye-view, as it were, of English social life. Many of the clubs are copies of the London clubs, and social distinctions, which were formerly preserved with absurd exactness still exist, and the young representatives of the English nobility are still apt to secure the big prizes in the contest for social eminence and honors...
...tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another forbidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gowns, are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statute book; no observance is paid to them. These are good examples of a certain class of petty rules and regulations in existence, but never enforced at Oxford...
...championship are equal to ours; and neither of these nines has been defeated by any nine except Harvard. In view of the promised excitement in the contest between these three colleges, and the success which we may expect for Harvard, it might be well for some understanding to exist between the faculty and students in regard to the manner of conducting future celebrations, if we may be fortunate enough to have any opportunities for them. The enthusiasm is sure to be expressed in some way, as it is practically impossible to prevent any demonstration whatever. It has been suggested...
...departments should not issue these pamphlets giving all the information possible about their respective courses. If the other departments inthe modern languages would kindly follow the example of the French department, which is soon to publish a description of its courses, the present ignorance and confusion which seems to exist as to the exact intention of the work in some of the modern languages might be effaced...