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...College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole end of his study...
...very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years old will be better educated, a more advanced scholar, than he of nineteen is today...
...this position between the two, with the advantage slightly in Hayes's favor, as he is the stronger at the bat. Paine and Highlands pitched an easy game, but they held the visitors down to seven hits. Altogether, Harvard found no difficulty in hitting Sedgwick, and batted out seventeen hits with a total of twenty...
...response to the call for teachers in the Chinese Sunday School in the Old Mount Vernon Street Church, seventeen men have sent in their names. There are still many Chinamen in the school without teachers, and the news that students from Harvard were coming to instruct them has largely increased the number. All men who would be willing to give their services are asked to send their names to E. von Mach, 18 Bowdoin street, Cambridge...
...college and from this it would seem that the baseball prospects are bright. However, the vacancies left by McKenzie and King will be difficult ones to fill. There is an unusually large number of candidates for the team; for the position of pitcher alone there are seventeen, but on the quality of them no judgement can as yet be passed, owing to the lack of sufficient practice. Pfeffer will in all probability coach the team and will possibly begin about the middle of next week. Unless the freshman class turns out a good man for second base, Captain Brooks will...