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...issue of the College papers. In view, however, of the false and misleading reports sent to and published by some of the Boston papers last Saturday morning, respecting the object of the conference and the intentions of the committee and a member of the Faculty, they have decided to abandon the project, and no conference will be held. They desire to state explicitly that the football question was not to be discussed and that no idea of a senate or anything approaching to or resembling it was even broached or thought...
...extremely unfortunate that gross misrepresentation of the aims and methods of the proposed College Conferences has made it necessary to abandon them altogether. Ease and effectiveness in the government of the College are chiefly to be expected along the line of better understanding between the Faculty and the students; for in the case of two such bodies it is not familiarity, but unfamiliarity, which breeds contempt. The progress of the past few years has shown how true this is, and it has been very gratifying to notice the constantly improving relations between professors and students. The College Conferences would have...
Cvcling Assoclation.Owing to the bad condition of the roads the Cycling Association may abandon the road race which was to be held between the seventh and the twelfth of this month...
...used to be said that a strong argument could be found in the intuition which men have of immortality. This is to give up scientific research and abandon ourselves to mystery...
...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...