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...under-graduates is but another step toward the perfection of the elective system. On a par in importance with this are the new requirements in regard to the anticipation of a part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned. Any person can now come...
...newspapers some time ago, in which the insignificant number of bequests that had been made of recent years to Yale was attributed to it. Harvard, on the other hand, has laid open the minutest details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past. Men of wealth feel greater readiness in endowing an institution of this sort than one where the whole government is kept a close secret. And the fact that Harvard is demanding more money...
...question whether it might not be much better, is good for all conditions of men whose work can be learned well when the mind has lost its first pliability. That a certain stiffness of mind, an inability to accommodate itself to new work of any kind, is the result, and the single result, of university training which acts as a drawback to success in practical life...
...almost as many candidates as he can conveniently accommodate, with the proper practice, in the cage this winter. Still there will always be room for one more, and, now that the lacrosse interests are on such a good footing, they should receive the attention of every possible candidate. The result next spring will depend almost entirely on the efficiency and steadiness of this winter's work in the gymnasium. In spite of the cramped quarters of the cage there are numerous points of the game which can be properly learned there alone, and these points - throwing and catching especially...
...number of graduates of other colleges in the upper classes during the year, there being now twenty-five holders of the degree of A. B. in the undergraduate department. The change of policy of the faculty in regard to anticipation of studies of the freshman year was explained. The result of recent conferences between the principal colleges, looking towards the equalization of entrance examinations, was stated to be in a degree successful...