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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made at this meeting and will embrace information from about twenty colleges. The work of this committee will be accomplished when a concise report containing an abstract of this information shall have been submitted: It then remains for the conference to discuss various plans. Discussion is necessary; no result can be reached without it. We all earnestly hope, however, that discussion on this question will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction or construction. Evils do exist in our marking system, and they can be eradicated, in some degree, by changing the system. A grading of courses, so that marks received...
...privileges of the university, and when we remember that the prominent college societies are open to them, we cannot understand why the students in the school are so few in number. We trust that the improvements made in the methods to be followed at the school will result in a satisfactory increase in the names on the roll...
...them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other and the result was often not so very bad. The progress of San Francisco was identical with that of the whole state. In 1848 it was a little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city of 25,000 population. Tents were not comfortable, and rude houses...
What causes work to bring about this result, and how can they be obviated? True, it is natural for New England people to patronize their own colleges, but these preparatory schools do not gain all their patronage from the New England States, but have a large number of students from the South, West and North; sections of country where Princeton has always been in high favor. Especially is the representation at these schools from the Northwest increasing. From the city of Minneapolis alone, Andover has had an average attendance of late years of some eight...
...result of the Yale-Princeton game to-day will be posted at Leavitt & Peirce's immediately after the game...