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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALTHOUGH in the past several societies whose aim was the mutual improvement of members have had a sickly existence, an early death, or a hasty burial without funeral ceremonies, yet the establishment of such societies is always worthy of praise. It shows a healthy interest in important topics, a desire to make full use of the peculiar advantages of a college course, and an activity and enthusiasm directly opposed to the lamented Harvard indifference. We are, therefore, pleased to notice the prosperous beginning of the Finance Club and the renewed activity of the Philosophical Club; and we hope to hear...
...Trinity Tablet thinks that the literary productions of small colleges have not received their due, and quotes at length from the papers of the large colleges to show the inferiority of the literature of the latter. These quotations are by far the most interesting thing in the Tablet, and hardly justify the following conclusions...
Admission to Oxford seems to be easy. The applicant is examined in some Greek play, generally Euripides, or in Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...
...back, waiting to see who their opponents were going to be, and would enter or not accordingly. But now they can have no such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time or be shut out entirely. The Sophomore class made a very small show on the programme, and still worse in the field; entering only five men out of thirty, which certainly is not their proper proportion. We hope they will feel the College expects more from them, and we shall all look for them carefully in the next meetings. The Freshmen have reason...
ATHLETICS.Taken as a whole, the times made at our fall meeting on last Saturday were fairly good. The track, of course, was rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times being most excellent. Several men have said that the track is over distance, and that it should have been a fifth-mile measured eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps...