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Today's issue of the CRIMSON ends a term upon which we can look back with satisfaction. The University has continued its onward march. It is at present on a financial basis second to none in the country. This term has seen improvements in the curriculum and additions to almost every part of the University, the greatest gain being in the number of students in the scientific school. The term just closed is the only one in which there is no examinations. Hence it commends itself to many as the most enjoyable of the three. The term about to open...
...point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised that there are no competent men of this stamp to be found. But there are such men, and well known ones at that. I have two in mind at present-Messrs. Edward Plummer and George Goldie, both of whom are far too well known to need any words of praise from me. One of these men I know to be perfectly competent. The other, if not so, only lacks a familiarity with the latest rules, which could be easily acquired. These...
...Sunnday evening, Dec. 23, Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., will conduct the Christmas service. Great efforts will be made to present a musical programme of more than usual interest. In order that the choir may be up to the usual standard, Mr. Lock requests all students who can sing tenor or bass to attend the rehearsal in Appleton Chapel, Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock...
...themes, deserves a careful reading. The same idea must have occurred to every senior and junior taking elective courses in which theses are required. To be sure, the man who has three or four theses, as the Advocate assumes, is not the average man, so the evil of the present system is not so great as it pictures. Nevertheless the pressure is heavy and its lightening would undoubtedly improve the character of the work done...
Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no over due theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...