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DEAR SIR.- A majority of your college, as well as a good proportion of Harvard, seem to be opposed to a dual league, as matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
...student comes to Cambridge generally when his habits of life are well formed, and probably very few changes in them will take place here. It may be as well to make a few dogmatic statements concerning them. It has been shown beyond question by the experience of the great military schools in Germany, where supervision is perfect, that the early use of tobacco is altogether bad, though it has far less influence in some than in others. In regard to alcohol, German testimony is more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt...
...Monthly continues Mr. Carpenter's translation of Ibsen's "The Lady of the Sea." The third, fourth and fifth acts occupy almost the entire space of the magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have...
...course in pedagogy would necessarily be largely theoretical. A sound theoretical and philosophical knowledge of pedagogy could be gained, and the after experience would thereby be based upon correct principles. This is the line of work which a college could do and for such work Harvard is already well fitted. The proposition should receive the careful attention of the college authorities...
Holden Chapel was well filled last evening by members of the St. Paul's Society. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who, after a short address explaining the purpose of the meeting, introduced Mr. Endicott Peabody, principal of the Groton school. Mr. Peabody spoke of the manner in which Harvard is looked upon by those not connected with the university. He said that many feel that our system of religion is not apt to work for, the best interests of the students; that the popular impression is that Harvard influences are not of the best. He spoke...