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...presidents and professors of seventeen colleges in the State of Ohio have organized an association to discuss questions of interest and promote a spirit of fraternity. Nine of these colleges have the word "university" attached to their title...
...overseers is to set the university back on the same plan of college discipline on which it stood fifty years ago, the adoption of their last resolutions will accomplish that object most effectually. We had supposed that Harvard was no longer a "college" in the strict sense of the word, but a "university" in fact as well as in name, that students here were to be allowed some freedom of action, and not to be tied down by a multitude of school-boy rules. If we are not mistaken the same board of overseers tried to re-establish, early this...
...object to plunder the temple. At this time the nationality and unity which the oracle represented sank with obscurity. It still gave responses, but they were no longer true, and in Athens' wars they favored the enemies of Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from that time until comparatively lately it has remained buried in the deepest obscurity. In 1840, Dr. Ottfield Muller went to the site of Delphi and his work showed the opportunity for discovery and research among the ruins. Twenty years later another attempt at discovery was made...
...return to athletics for a word, very little can be said in regard to either the nine or the crew, for they are both in a very unsettled state at present. The captains will naturally be on the teams, but aside from that little has been decided as yet. As for the candidates, they are numerous and the material moderately good. The resignation of Captain Finlay from the Harvard crew was quite a surprise to every one here...
...life and art of Benvenuto Cellini. Mr. Colby and Mr. Ruland had worked up the subject together, and read extracts from Cellini's very interesting autobiography, and comments on his works by Symonds. The meeting was entirely informal. and Mr. Ross and others often added some interesting word or anecdote to the accounts of the regular speakers. A very fine book of plates illustrating Cellini's most noted works was kindly loaned by Mr. Kiernan from the library. This work is edited by Eugene Plon and is very valuable. The other books used were translations of Cellini's Memoirs...