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ABOUT twenty-five bicyclists met in Holden Chapel last evening for the purpose of organizing a club. The whole number of men in college who own machines is somewhat over thirty, so there were quite a number who were not present...
...encourage athletics here. Now, as the contestants in many of the events of the in-door meeting practise together daily, it is well known beforehand who is likely to win; and often the man whose chances are best is left to enter the contest alone. Hence, under the present rule, a man is actually discouraged from trying to excel, knowing that if he acquires a decided superiority over others, no one will enter against him, and he will lose all chances...
...notice. If the recital had been widely announced by posters so placed as to generally inform the students and the Cambridge public of its occurrence, we are confident that a much larger hall could have been easily filled. We will venture to say that even Sanders Theatre would not present many empty floor seats at a free recital given by a musician of Professor Paine's eminence. We regard it as the duty of Mr. Paine, the representative musician of the community, to employ this opportunity of enabling the public to hear piano-forte music of a high order...
...reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken in a list embracing a large proportion of the class, - it will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors...
...scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which they are sure to get "honourable mention." The author of the article entitled "Honours and Honourable Mention" spoke of the new system as less conducive to studying for marks than...