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...connection with the above it might be well to call the attention of students, who intend to devote themselves to politics, to the advantages now offered in the department of politics by Harvard College. By the recent action of the faculty, in offering Final Honors in Political Science, Harvard has added essentially a new department to the ones now existing. There are at present two schools of Political Science in the country-one at Columbia and one at Michigan University. Although Harvard has no department with this high-sounding title, every course given by these colleges in their schools...
...recent action of the president of the university in regard to college nines playing with professionals is of the greatest importance to the future of college base-ball. Heretofore it has been customary for the nine to practice in the first part of the year with professional nines in Boston, New York, Providence and Worcester. This practice has been a great assistance to the nine, and has been very instrumental in bringing about the good condition of the nine at the beginning of the series for the college championship. If the nine is not allowed to play with professionals...
...frequent reports of the college tournaments, and seem to announce a deeper-felt interest in the game than would be surmised from the answers sent to our invitations. If the game is really as popular elsewhere as we are led to believe, surely a few enthusiasts will take same action towards final results, and will not let themselves be eclipsed by the greater energy of lacrosse men, who are now winning a more general recognition. The refusals from Yale and Princeton have very effectually shut off our association's advances, and unless it receive some new and unexpected impulse...
...many symptoms of imbecility often shown by the authorities of some colleges, none has ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought...
...name of the New England Association of Cornell Alumni, consists of ladies and gentlemen, graduates of the university since its formation in 1868, and of former under-graduated students, who are admitted to associate membership. The objects of the association are partly social, but mainly to secure concert of action on subjects of special importance to the alumni...