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...Yale graduate advisory committee, published in the Sunday Herald, is regarded by the students at Harvard as a concession on the part of Yale. The proposition that Yale makes is, in substance, what the Harvard committee has contended for from the beginning of the controversy, and the result will probable be an early arrangement to row the annual race under conditions to which both parties will agree. - [Boston Herald...
Believing that a published expression of the opinions of the captains of the principal college teams would be of interest to a large number of persons who have the welfare of cricket at heart, a Telegram reporter solicited their views, with the following result...
...come from the smaller schools, often with difficulty manage to pass the admission papers, although they may be better versed in the general knowledge of subject, but have not been fitted with the one object of entering Harvard in view, as have those from the large schools. As a result the men from the schools manage to get through a large part of the freshman work on the strength of their fit. It is not until the later years that a man's natural ability comes entirely into play. He is then, however, allowed to take courses for which...
...days since. It has always seemed very unjust to many that the freshman year, which is entirely taken up with required work, a great deal of which may be distasteful and onerous to most men, should count so much more than any other subsequent year. As a result a man who received a low mark for his freshman year's work felt no great inclination to study harder afterwards in the hope of bettering his degree, as he felt himself severely handicapped...
Whether or not the above laudable views will result disastrously to the competitions in which Harvard is to enter, as has been predicted by the foretellers, is a question which, however satisfactorily settled to the minds of the wiseacres, can only be settled after a fair and lengthy trial of the new system. Sufficient to say that Harvard does not intend to withdraw her teams from the field, and hopes to present a satisfactory showing wherever gentlemanly prowess is called into competition. - [Spirit of the Times...