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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is proposed to have '88 establish a precedent by founding a new and much needed Freshman institution-a Glee Club. In a college like ours, there is undoubtedly need for more than one Glee Club. Who, then, can more properly inaugurate such a movement than the first class, which has entered college under the new regime, and with which is supposed to begin a new era in freshman life? This matter, therefore, is brought to the attention of every '88 man. Every man, who sings at all, or thinks he can, whether he reads music with...
...course which has in it two entire classes, there is great need of a proper reservation of selected works, and for such, a sufficient number of copies that all may be accommodated...
...superintendent of the Columbia gymnasium has adopted a novel method of demonstrating to the authorities the imperative need of a new gymnasium. Says the Spectator: "The gymnasium begins to be densely crowded every afternoon, and the need of a new and larger gymnasium is more apparent than ever. In order to have the means of accurately determining the daily attendance, Mr. Cuthbertson, the instructor, has provided a box, in which every one who uses the gymnasium places a card with his name written on it. It is to be hoped that when our liberal (!) and progressive (?) Board of Trustees find...
...great pity that the college is so poor that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward...
...freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing at the games through consciousness of their inability to carry away the prizes. The senselessness of both these courses of reluctance to compete has been too often pointed out, to need further comment...