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...question of the examination system naturally arises. It is of course difficult to add to this subject anything beyond what is annually said in its condemnation by both professors and students. The thought that most naturally suggests itself, however, is one of wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton...
...this year. However, it is a most fitting time to suggest that some regulations against it ought to be made before the next season. It has become almost a regular habit at every game for a few thoughtless persons, towards the end, to leave their places and stand nearer the line without paying any attention to the fact that they were obstructing the view of those behind. This had the effect of bringing those who could not see as well into the line and straightway those on the lower tiers of seats were compelled to abandon them if they wished...
...athletics ever had been nearer perfection than at the present day the views of the committee would receive the support of every right-minded man and would be welcomed. But athletics never have been ideal and never will be, and for a committee of the faculty of a university, as censors, to butt against a vast majority can do but little good...
...that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale has gone all the way to Cambridge." We know that the management of our freshman team is doing all in its power to arrange this game and is as anxious as Yale that the game should be played...
Princeton today has a smaller proportion of students from New York and Pennsylvania, than ever before, the students of these states preferring colleges nearer home...