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...former. Graphic tables are employed which show a continuous upward movement for Harvard, while Yale, after many fluctuations, takes a downward turn from 1882 to 1885. In 1885 Yale entered 22 students less than in 1865. Harvard, on the other hand, entered 133 more. From such a standpoint, the writer's presentation of the case is impregnable, but it is misleading in that the scientific departments are not included in the comparison. At Harvard the optional system has reduced this department to insignificance, but it forms one of Yale's most important features. It this vigorous and flourishing branch...
...discontinuance of a plan which he claimed enabled the students "to improve his style beyond recognition." It is only just to say that we have been informed by the instructor in question why the practice was discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done...
...land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week...
Major Hotchkiss, who lectures in Sanders Theatre to-night, served during the rebellion as a topographical engineer for the Confederacy. His lecture will therefore be from the Southern standpoint...
...yesterday the students thronged around the south entrance to University Hall, their "minds with but a shingle thought." Never before in the history of fraternity life has such a shingle been exposed to public view. Its appearance marks a new era in college decorative art. Considered from the standpoint of heraldry the new shingle is grand. On a field (blanc), seme with cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device...