A writer for the News complains that after choosing an "optional" a Yale man must leave the hour of recitation to the faculty, while at Harvard one may choose the hour when he wishes to recite. The Harvard system thus provides for the interests of athletics, by enabling the members of the nine or crew to get together for practice without interfering with recitations. Yale is handicapped in this respect, and in behalf of athletics the writer urges a change.
The collegians of France, and the young ladies of various boarding schools, have determined, this year, to go without the prizes awarded them annually, so that the money usually spent on them may be used to aid in supplying the wants of the wounded soldiers in Tonquin.
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