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...unnecessary expense. The present management do not intend to be wasteful, but in view of the tremendous burden which sports have come to be upon the purses of the students, we should not object to see a return in some respects to the more Spartanlike simplicity of former years. The crews of ten or a dozen years ago which battled for Harvard did not find it necessary to have shore uniforms bought for them, even though they were quartered near more than three other crews and close to larger cities than New London. There was no talk of their esprit...
...wished him to figure upon the cost of building a house of given proportions. Such an estimate could be prepared without very great trouble by the treasurer. The boat club is no new organization, and the legitimate expenses of maintaining the crew are not wholly unknown. The figures of former years are at hand and can be of some use in making an estimate. If it were only the custom for the college to demand, and the treasurer to furnish such an estimate each year, there would doubtless result much benefit to our purses. The treasurers would take pride...
...conducting the required English courses of the senior and junior year's have much to recommend them, the promoters of this scheme seem to have overlooked one fact which has hitherto received attention. We refer to the practice of writing commencement parts, which seniors are requested to follow. In former years a commencement part could be substituted for part of the forensic work of the senior year. At present, however, no account is taken of commencement parts, and no allowance made directly for those who wrote them. It is true that a writer of a part could probably...
...significant fact that the eastern colleges that favor scientific education have received the greatest gain in the number of pupils. The Institute of Technology, and Cornell University are particular illustrations of this tendency, the former reporting one hundred more students than last year, and the entering class of the latter being larger than that of Yale, and according to reports, equal to that of Harvard.- University Press...
...Mathematics with 141; and the number of freshmen whose choice includes all these studies is 83. The Dean, in commenting on this says, "the freshmen were strongly urged to make their selection of studies with the utmost care, seeking the best advice within their reach, particularly that of their former teachers. They appear to have heeded this injunction, and their choices are on the whole encouraging. To the influence of their teachers is probably due the fact that Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, which have now for the first time been made entirely elective in college, have attracted the largest number...