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Students desiring to join the Pierian are invited to present themselves for examination at the Pierian Rooms, in Holyoke, next Thursday evening...
...Scholarship," with direct bearing on the "secondary" school-system - in the schools which undertake to fit boys for college. The preparation which is obtained before entrance to any college has a vital importance on success in college, and materially affects the benefits arising from a collegiate education. Under the present system some men will always find college work comparatively easy, while others will have great difficulty in maintaining a high position in the large classes, now the rule and not the exception in our larger and older Colleges. The disparity comes from the different grades of the schools in which...
...other schools have not the desire nor ability to present such finished candidates. Many country towns - we say it with no disparagement - have to devote themselves to common-school education, and neglect, to a great extent, the preparation of students, if they have any, for college. It is a remarkable fact, however, that when a country school sends one man, say in a decade, to college, he almost invariably obtains and maintains a high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth...
DEAR SIR, - Two years ago the members of the present Senior and Junior Classes entered into an agreement that they would themselves refrain from the practice of "hazing," and would discountenace it in others. This agreement they have faithfully adhered to, and for two years Freshmen have been free from annoyance proceeding from Sophomores...
THERE are at present stored away in a dusty alcove of Gore Hall fifteen or twenty flags won by Harvard men on various waters. They remain there only by sufferance, and are not only in danger of being utterly ruined, but even now have suffered severely from dust and want of care. Once a year these trophies of palmier regattas are brought to light for a few hours, and then returned to be lost for a year, save to some inquisitive student who may stumble upon them in their exile...