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During the past summer, the New York Evening Post published a series of very interesting letters on the subject of college cribbing. These letters have now been collected and republished in a pamphlet entitled "The Ethics of the marking System." They are from college men of all descriptions, - graduates, undergraduates, professors, and students. They all agree that a great amount of cribbing is practised in nearly every American college. One writer even affirms that 75 per cent. of the college graduates owe their degree in part to this system of outside help in the examination room. This writer, however...
Some comment has been made upon the freshman game at Southboro which may lead the freshmen to feel their position with reference to foot-ball rather desperate. Nothing has been more familiar in past years than for our freshman foot-ball elevens and base-ball nines to encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary...
...energetic president, however, is still here, and will do much to place the club again in a working condition. Having once seen what an organization of this nature can do, the Harvard student demands that there shall be no diminution of interest and work, and that if possible the past record may be sustained and even surpassed...
Although it has been the custom in past years to offer to the students a course of voluntary evening readings the readings which are offered to us this year far surpass in interest those which have been offered for several years. Great care has been taken in the selection of the readings, and they are given by gentlemen whose names assure those who care to interest themselves in the matter that attendance will fully repay any one for the time he may give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts...
...recently been received concerning the actions of the bursar. There has long been felt throughout the college a dissatisfaction at the conduct of this gentleman toward the students. Many of his acts have bordered slightly on the tyrannical with no rules to support them. It is true that in past years, and even at present, perhaps, some of the students have irritated the bursar by their strenuous efforts to acquire rooms despite his efforts to the contrary. Notwithstanding this, the innocent should not be made to pay the penalty due the guilty. At least there should be formulated...