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...bill for the relief of the officers and men of the U. S. S. Monitor, which participated in the action with the rebel iron-clad steamer Merrimac, was discussed in the House yesterday, but no decision was arrived...
...Greek department seems to be determined to keep its well-earned reputation for push and energy, which has made it so popular in the past. The action of Prof. White in offering to the students of his course one of the retiring rooms in Sever as a reading room and study, must meet with the approval of every student who has suffered from the numerous inconveniences which necessarily attach to the library, however excellent the management of that institution. Where a large crowd frequent one room, as is the case with the library, there must be more or less noise...
...there was a boom started at that college this year that the Harvard Nine withdraw from the contest, inasmuch, as they then said, Harvard was known to be an institution 'devoted to learning only and not to athletics.' A university meeting was held for the university to take some action, but just then the worthy president evolved his little scheme by which as much college work should be required of his athletes as always has been of Yale's, and by which, at the same time, Yale should be pushed down correspondingly low by depriving her of all that could...
...college authorities should see to it that the students do not incur heavy expenses on account of their athletic clubs; that the tax is kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country...
...Inter-collegiate Base-Ball League will be of service to the representatives of Harvard at the base-ball convention, in helping them to determine the stand which they will take upon this question. When the subject was first broached we gave it as our opinion that any separate action on the part of Harvard would be unwise and arbitrary, inasmuch as it would be nothing less than an attempt to coerce the other colleges into her way of thinking. Since that time the question of dividing the league has been discussed in other colleges, and seems to meet with much...