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...catalogue, of which the principal is the admission of unmatriculated students. Upon payment of a moderate fee, persons twenty-one years of age can pursue such studies as they are qualified for without passing the usual entrance examination. A "Certificate of Proficiency" is given to such of them as obtain seventy-five per cent of the maximum mark in their courses. Some new prizes are offered to Freshmen and Sophomores for reading; and the requirements for entrance are increased a little, as usual. We are sorry to see that the number of men who have taken the various electives this...
SENIORS can obtain their Junior Themes at Professor Child's recitation-room, University...
...hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage on his outlay, and the latter would obtain the necessary garments at a trifling expense. The cost of a cap and gown is, however, not great, and when it is taken into consideration that they can be readily disposed of to the succeeding class the expense is reduced considerably below that which the present style of costume entails. Caps...
These travels were begun in 1796, and as it is now 1876, President Dwight's eighty years are just completed, and the time has come to take down his ponderous volumes from the shelves, and after having brushed off the dust which has been accumulating for eight decades, to obtain a view of the country as it appeared at the end of the last century. Besides, this is the Centennial year, when people everywhere are looking up the records of the past. So let every New-Englander and New-Yorker, and every one who is interested in any New England...
...differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations" must obtain fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point...