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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last number of the New York Nation contains a letter from R. C. Ringwalt '95 entitled "Judging College Debates." The point made in the letter is that judges should be instructed "to render their decision not on the merits of the question as debated but on the merits of the debating entirely." His objection to the present system is that "in judging the merits of the question as debated" the judges must unconsciously be influenced by their personal prejudices, and that moreover it is almost impossible to obtain a question that will furnish equal opportunities to both sides...
...dress rehearsal of "Boscabello," this year's Pudding play went off successfully yesterday afternoon. Both the book and the music are fully up to the standard of previous performances. There are the usual number of local hits, and the common liberties are taken with the plot. The music throughout is lively and catchy, and many of the numbers are above the average; notably the march which occurs in the first act. This easile takes rank with "Up the Street" and Sousa's marches. The "Toreador" song in the last act reminds one strongly of "Carmen," although this resemblance lessens...
...making this comparison the three latest possible classes at the two colleges have been treated, the classes of '94, '95 and '96. The class of '97 could not be taken as the number of its members who are to receive their degrees after five or perhaps after six years is not yet ascertainable. The time covered is from the fall of '90, when the classes of '94 entered the two colleges as freshmen, to the coming June, when a few stragglers from the classes of '96 may yet receive their degrees. The statistics deal only with the men entered regularly...
...college the preceding year and been dropped a class, and also those of men who have entered the class regularly, but who had been in their university the preceding year as special students and thus got a few courses to their credit. The first interesting comparison is in the number of men of the firet kind,- "dropped" freshmen. The large number of these men at Harvard shows the strict discipline of our college office, but is partly accounted for by our elective system which allows a man to divide his work unequally among the four years, if he desires, although...
...show that a smaller percentage of Harvard men were able to get the degree in four years or less than was the case at Yale, the difference being 4-10 percent. in '94, 4 9-10 percent. in '95, and 3 per cent. in '96. In regard to the number of men getting their degrees in five and six years the statistics are again slightly in favor of Harvard, while the percentages of the men who left college without a degree is in all cases notably larger at Harvard than at Yale...