We wish to correct an error which appeared recently in our usually accurate contemporary, the Princetonian. In discussing the sizes of the incoming freshman classes at Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the Princetonian referred to Harvard and Yale as colleges which held out inducements to students by offering prizes at the freshman examinations. We do not know what is the practice at Yale, but at Harvard no prizes of any description are awarded at the freshman examinations. Harvard depends upon her own merits to attract students to its halls, and does not need any little system like that which the Princetonian advocates, to add to the size of her already rapidly growing freshman classes.
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