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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Progress gives a succinct statement of the question of co-education : "I cannot understand why women or girls and those who speak for them should want co-education. There are colleges and schools for girls nearly equal in every respect to the best of those for boys. If these girls' colleges continue to fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think...
Many complaints have recently been made regarding the disobliging spirit evinced by one of the attendants at the gymnasium. We should advise all who have cause for complaint in this respect to speak to Dr. Sargent, and we feel sure that the matter will be remedied at once...
Yale is enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. The college papers speak highly of his work, as does the New Haven Register. Speaking of the race between the freshmen and the Scientific School in eight-oared boats, the New Haven correspondent of the Boston Journal says: "Contrary to all expectation, the freshmen won their race. The freshman coxswain, W. B. Goodwin of Biddeford, Me., will stand a good chance for university coxswain. He has had some experience at Exeter and weighs about one hundred pounds out of training. He steered remarkably well in yesterday's race. After the experience...
Some of the rules respecting the subordination of the freshmen to the members of the higher classes which were in vogue a hundred years ago are most quaint. At Harvard College in the last century no freshman was allowed to "speak to a senior with his hat on, or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." And every freshman, with an occasional exception, was obliged to serve as errand-boy for "any of his seniors, graduates or undergraduates, at any time, except in studying hours or after nine o'clock...
...speak of taking a long walk unless you have been to Canada...