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...professional studies will be required of the first- or second-year undergraduate. In taking up these subjects before the close of his college career, the student will be enabled to complete his professional training sooner. This is distinctly contrary to our conception of college education. On the one hand we find Yale embarking upon a system of early professionalism, and on the other hand we find Harvard clinging to the doctrine of "liberal education...
...cannot but wonder whether the proposed early specialization will give a college man that subtlety of mind and ease of adjustment which a wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...still maintain our conception of the college. But what could be more fitting than that the two great American universities should differ? For they are sister institutions, and the family which has but one idea is indeed to be pitied...
...captain of the Freshmen. Both men excel in the dashes and the relay, although the former is also in the diving events. It was decided that beginning on Monday both teams, will practice in the tank of the Boston Y. M. C. A. instead of in the one at Cambridge which is not a regulation pool. The only definite dates on the swimming schedule as yet are February 8, when the University will meet Andover at Andover, March 1, when the Freshmen will meet the M. I. T. Freshmen, and March 8, when there will be a University meet with...
Dispatches from Princeton indicate that the rowing management desires to inaugurate an annual triangular regatta between Princeton, Yale, and the University instead of the usual dual events. If this movement is approved by the representatives of the other two universities it will be one of the most radical athletic innovations of recent years...