Word: yeare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...June. Besides thinning the ranks, this plan will have the advantage of giving those who remain some idea of each other's powers. This is such an obvious improvement over the old method, that we wonder it has not been adopted before. Three or four years ago there were so many candidates that the Faculty decided to exclude Sophomores; perhaps they might now be allowed to compete; but if this does not seem advisable, we respectfully suggest that in the Catalogue next year the false statement, which has stood for four years, that "members of the graduating class...
...than ever before. It seems that there is to be a preliminary trial, and only those who come up to a required standard of excellence will be allowed to speak for the prizes. The number of speakers will thus be diminished at least one quarter from that of previous years; there will be this year, at the most, only thirty. It has always been a matter of regret that more have not thought it worth their while to come to these exercises; comparisons have been made between the attendance at the public speaking in the Boston Latin School...
...View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what is he to do? Is it not better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There are but few electives in which a diligent student will find an occasional absence from recitation an irreparable loss, and these few he naturally...
Yale. - The average weight of the Yale Eight is 165 3/4 lbs., against an average of 176 1/4 lbs. for our crew. They will have a new coxswain this year, as Aldrich has grown too heavy. There are four men from last year's crew in their boat, while we have seven in ours...
...Freshman year, when I was told to omit the shocking passage in which mention is made of Maecenas' kissing his wife, I did n't see the impropriety of the verses; but I finally found an explanation, - the tutor was unmarried. However, that did n't account for other omissions, so I was forced to suppose that we Freshmen were treated as very young boys, because the tutor did n't think we were yet "men," in spite of our own very decided opinion to the contrary. "Well," said I, "in the electives next year, at any rate, this over...