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...governing policy and in the undergraduate aspirations of other colleges. It is natural too that the larger institutions in affording a wider opportunity for the existence of varied social elements, should be the first to swerve from some of the intensely conservative and now antiquated restrictions of the past. Moreover, for this reason, it would be surprising indeed if Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among the first to grant either sex alike, official...
...Mott Haven team of '87 begins its existence to-day. Its success in past years makes it almost unnecessary for us to give it the benefit of our advice. But there are a few cautions it will be wise to heed. In the first place we must bear in mind that Yale has a very strong team and that there are besides, other colleges which confidently expect to win the Mott Haven Cup for themselves. Our own team is weakened, or we must suppose it so until the new candidates prove themselves worthy successors of the old prize winners...
...celebrated clergy of our times, offers another and a strong inducement to the acceptance of this plan. But perhaps the strongest argument in its favor is the general approval it would receive from the students, while its practicability is proven by its present success at Harvard, and by its past history at Yale. In the first place the interest of the students must be aroused before any good can come. That one man alone cannot hold the student's attention and keep up their interest has been shown by the indifferent spirit of the past few years, while the interest...
...temporary separation which is soon to take place between President Eliot and the college by his departure to Europe, is significant in many ways. That he allows himself this separation shows that he feels the university to be in a much more prosperous position than in the past; and that now it is committed to a course which must remain unchanged for some time to come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express...
...considerable deficit in the accounts of the college, but this is not to be feared in the case of an institution which is growing as rapidly as ours. In fact, Harvard is the only college in New England which has attained any great increase in size during the past ten years. Sometimes, although not often, there is a deficit for one year, as the result of some unusual outlay...