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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study is definitely prescribed, and is controlled by frequent examinations. French teaching is confined to that which is clearly established, and transmits this in a well-arranged, well-worked-out manner, which is easily intelligible, and does not excite doubt nor the necessity of deeper enquiry. The teachers need only possess good receptive talents. Thus in France it is looked upon as a false step when a young man of promising talents takes a professorship in a faculty in the provinces. The method of instruction in France is well adapted to give pupils, of even moderate capacity, sufficient knowledge...
...fall has created a livelier interest than ever throughout the college at large, which promises excellent support to the team this season. If the number of candidates presenting themselves is to steadily increase during the next few days, as there is every reason to expect it will, no one need doubt for a moment that there will be sufficient material. The principal games this fall will unfortunately be played away from home, and although we are to be relieved from the inconvenience of meeting Yale at New Haven, still it is very probable that the Princeton game will take place...
...former year have had cause to wonder at the vastness and extent of the college, what must be the feelings of the freshmen of today ? But these very freshmen, moreover, themselves afford the greatest cause for wonder and congratulation. A class whose members are reported to exceed three hundred need have no occasion to emulate the illustrious example of little Jacky Horner and his Christmas pie. An infant so big as this need scarcely proclaim its own bigness...
...wish to urge upon those members of the university who have subscribed for the University crew and have not paid their subscriptions, the necessity of paying at once. The crew is in need of money, and after the splendid victory of Wednesday there should be no hesitation both in paying subscriptions already handed in and also in adding new subscriptions. We hope that this will be borne in mind, and that the labors of the treasurer of the crew will be lightened as much as is possible by the prompt payment of subscriptions...
...York Tribune addresses a few remarks to "Parents and Guardians," in which it moralizes on the various weaknesses of our American colleges and comes to the conclusion that we need better primary schools - a conclusion with which we all agree, although not always acknowledging that better schools should mean no higher universities. Says the Tribune...