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...would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...recent editorial in the News claims that, in spite of criticism. "Yale, as a college is unsurpassed." To support this somewhat bold assertion, it makes the statement that "It is on its traditions that a college can claim its pre-eminence;" that "the closeness of our college requirements forbids any stagnation, it makes necessary a wideness of acquaintance and interest; it has produced what has come to be worded 'Yale enthusiasm...
...understood. That is, cribbing would be taken from college offences, and placed where it belongs, beside stealing and such other offences, as require no statute to condemn them. Perhaps this mistake made by the Acta can be excused as natural, but the statement that the Conference was influenced by recent cheating, which, as one would judge by their statement, was increasing, is wholly false. Cribbing exists and has existed at Harvard, only as it exists in all other colleges, a method pursued only by a few desperate men, and tolerated through dormant college opinion...
...recent gift of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, to Wellesley College may well be a source of gratification to all interested in the higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time...
...special meeting of the board of overseers was held this morning at No. 70 Water street, the Hon. E. R. Hoar, presiding. Messrs. Lyman, Russell and Hale were appointed to consider what action the board should take, in view of the recent death of Mr. Francis E. Parker and Mr. Henry P. Kidder. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in their votes appointing W. C. Smith, A. B., and J. McG. Goodale, A. B., proctors for the current academic year; W. Schofield, LL. B., instructor in torts for the ensuing academic year; J. B. Warner, LL.B...