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...Colby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale-have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations, formed three years ago. This body consists of one member from the faculty of each college represented, and its excellent work is apparent in the advanced standard required in the recent catalogues of New England colleges in the requirements in English literature, which are now uniform in them all. The commission is now considering the subject of modern languages, and a higher proficiency in those branches also will probably be required. This method of elevating and rendering uniform the standard...
...Sawin has returned to his room, No. 7 Stoughton, which was burned by the recent fire...
Professor Bryce, of Oxford, Eng., in his recent work on the American Commonwealth," devotes a chapter to American universities and colleges. "Diligence, he says, is the tradition of the American college, especially of those which are remote from the influences of large cities. Even the greater universities, as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, have never been primarily places for spending three or four years pleasantly, and incidentally places of instruction, as was the case with Oxford and Cambridge during the last century. Every student at an American college goes to college with the fixed idea of learning something...
...recent concessions of the Athletic Committee have been such as to justify the confidence of the college in its establishment. The first important move was to allow the nine to employ a professional coach, and following close on its heels the permission to play with professional nines. Each step has been made in accordance with the universal desire of the undergraduates and at the request of the great majority of the alumni. But while the nine has been obtaining concessions which will enable it to stand a much better chance of winning against teams of other colleges, the captain...
...RECENT ALUMNUS...