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...introduced earlier in the course, when the young mind is as ready to grasp them. In this way the ground now covered by the grammar schools will be gone over in a much shorter time. From the recommendations of the Association it is difficult to make out whether they mean the grammar school course to be shortened, or whether it should remain the same length but carry the pupil further. In either case the change would have its effect on the colleges. In the former instance the student would enter college earlier, graduate earlier, and get to work...
...communication published in another column this morning affords a favorable opportunity for the correction of any misapprehension to which the editorial of Saturday's CRIMSON may have led. The CRIMSON did not mean to accuse, and, as a matter of fact, did not accuse, any particular officer connected with the affairs of the training table of neglecting his office. To do so at this time, before the accounts of the training table have been made public, would be clearly unjust. It is quite as possible, as our correspondent suggests, that the whole scheme was faultily conceived. The lack...
...Caswell, to govern the Intercollegiate Chess Tournament. The first and last five sections as they appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON were accepted, but the club decided to recommend that only two undergraduates, instead of three, represent each college. In order to avoid confusion, undergraduate was taken to mean undergraduate in the academic and scientific departments, law school men being thereby barred...
...whom you meet my sense of the very manly and cordial reception which I always found among them, and the earnest hearing which made every morning service an inspiration and delight to me. I shall hope to meet many of these unknown friends, or half-known friends, again; and mean-while, on the eve of sailing away into an untried future, I could not help writing this little farewell, as I thought of this - one of the happiest elements of my past...
...visions. And yet his trustfulness is seldom duly appreciated. If Abraham was faithful in his willingness to sacrifice his son at God's bidding. Isaac was also trustful in giving himself when he had heard no command. Isaac's life was pure, honest and practical. Jacob was, at first, mean and sordid; he ground his brother's inheritance from him and cheated his father. However, the trouble that came to him in later life helped to make him God's child. And at all periods God has been the God of every class of men, and not of the saint...