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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...solution of this problem, that the chapel hour be at a quarter before seven, with breakfast immediately following, and that otherwise no change be made, the hours for recitation remaining just as they are. This arrangement would leave to those who desired it a full hour and a half between breakfast and the first recitation hour; time enough for the review of work already prepared or for a good deal of further preparation...
...yards hurdle-race, trial heats. 12. 440 yards, final heat. 13. Three-mile walk (during which will take place pole leaping). 14. 120 yards hurdle-race, second trial-heats. 15. 220 yards, final heat. 16. Tug of war, final heat. 17. 120 yards hurdle-race, final heat. 18. One half-mile run. First two in each trial-heat allowed to run in second trial heats, and first two in each second trial-heat allowed to run in final...
...Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...Memorial from eight to seven o'clock, with the understanding that the chapel hour shall remain where it now is, seems altogether undesirable. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental, would take place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning...
...needless to say our sympathies are with the students, - not, mind you, with those few who are justly condemned, but with the college in general, which is made to bear the charges deserved by a few. It half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority...