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...number of candidates for the Yale University crew has been reduced to fourteen, who are now taking daily exercise in the tank, and expect to go out on the harbor in about two weeks. The following is the list of men who are now training: Woodruff, '89, captain, 177 pounds; Hartwell, '89, S., 170 pounds; Brewster, '91, 175 pounds; James, '90, 161 pounds-all of last year's crew; Mosle, '89, 165 pounds; Harrison, '90, 156 pounds; Heyworth, '90, S., 167 pounds; Rogers, '90, S., 160 pounds; Ferris, '91, 177 pounds; Isham, '91, 1551/2 pounds; Simons, '91, 157 pounds; Burroughs...
...problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
...vote, they ought certainly to be given instructions which will fit them to perform their duties as citizens. Naturally a knowledge of American institutions and of American history is of the first consequence, yet we find but scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight of the fourteen institutions referred to there is no study...
...sixty-two men in the senior class at Exeter, all but six will enter some college at the end of the current year. Twenty-six will come to Harvard, fourteen will go to Yale, four will go to Technology, two to Princeton, and the rest to the smaller colleges...
...window area of one thousand and twenty-five square feet to a floor area of six thousand six hundred and twelve square feet, thus being plentifully supplied with light during the day time. All around the reading-room are book-cases sufficient to contain a reference library of fourteen thousand six hundred volumes...