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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should not be decided at once, so that every one can have a chance to understand the new system perfectly and decide just how far it should influence his choice of studies. If a favorable decision is postponed until after the summer vacation it will make the experiment much less of a success the first year than it otherwise might...
...yard handicap run, 440-yard handicap hurdle - race, 20 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams...
...Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing in those special branches of study, or else...
...winning Cornell Freshmen defeated six out of thirteen University boats, and in 1876 the winning Cornell Freshmen defeated three out of six. In 1864, also, at Worcester, the Harvard Sophomores made thirty-eight seconds better time than the regular Harvard crew in the University race, and lacked less than five seconds of equalling the time made by the Yale crew in that race. In 1871 the Atlanta six defeated the Yale Sophomores by only nine seconds, and five days afterwards defeated the University crew of Harvard by sixty-three seconds. These were all three-mile races...
...with victory, than to organize de now a college eight or even four. Particular classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class rather than to the name of his college...