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...Phillipian shows commendable enterprise in publishing a full sized extra with its last issue. Foot-ball and a tennis tournament are its causes...
...Phillipian has made the discovery that "There is a Boston ring at Harvard as there is a Philadelphia ring at Princeton. While the class is still in a molten condition, before the true worth and sentiment are recognized, these bands of real or pseudo friends working together, control the class. Many instances of this have been lately seen...
...publish in another column an article taken from the latest number of the Phillipian of Andover Academy. From this it appears that the feeling in favor of Yale, formerly so prevalent in that school, has changed during the last few years and that if Andover continues in her present course she will soon be numbered among the staunch supporters of Harvard. That the editors of the paper themselves are willing to admit this new tendency is a sure guarantee that such a change is taking place. Only two years ago the students of Andover Academy hooted the freshmen...
...Phillipian comments thus: -"Perhaps nothing is more worthy of our attention as a school at present than the steady change of sentiment that has set in within the last few years in favor of Harvard as opposed to Yale. We have always been known as a Yale school; but a Harvard element had developed lately which threatens to overturn the ancient order of things and place us in the category of Harvard schools. A few years ago almost all our graduates went to Yale. As late as '80, only three or four went to Harvard, with probably twenty or twenty...
...proposed changes in Harvard's curriculum, the Phillipian says: "The mere fact that such ideas, which would at one time have been treated as below notice, are now gravely considered by responsible and influential scholars, shows the advance that has been made in public opinion within the last twenty years. 'The old order changeth, giving place to the new,' and it has always been the glory and the boast of Harvard that she keeps abreast of the popular current. Yet even Harvard may well pause and reflect before she breaks away so entirely from the old moorings, before she gives...