We cannot too highly praise the plan recently adopted at Yale, the particulars of which we learn from a Western exchange. "Dress suits," it says, "will be discontinued by the ushers at the Yale junior examinations." The plan of wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt it at whatever sacrifice of independence and comfort on our own part.
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The Serenade to the Princeton Nine.
