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...short account of the University extension movement in this country may be of interest. It was started in 1890 by Dr. William Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, to afford a system of instruction for adults, embracing lecture courses, with classes, exercises, examinations and certificates. The American Society for the extension of University Teaching, founded in 1890 by Dr. Pepper, has organized "local centres" in the neighboring states; and through branch societies and affiliated colleges has stimulated general diffusion of the system. The "Unit of Instruction" is a course of six or twelve weekly or fortnightly lectures, followed...
...contest between the track athletes of Yale and Harvard has been the cause of an endless amount of conjeeture upon the merits of the respective teams and the probable outcome of the games to be held on Holmes field to-morrow afternoon. The public performances of the different men afford the only means of comparing the merits of the contestants and many surprises may be in store for both teams, but it is with a keen appreciation of the uncertainty of predicting the outcome of the several events that this article is written...
...college has to turn out in a body to give the team the encouragement of a hearty demonstration of confidence and enthusiasm. Princeton has, perhaps, one of the strongest nines which ever represented her. Harvard though sending forth a team for whose success she has great hoes, cannot afford to miss any chance to add to its efficiency: and the one great thing the University can give to her chosen few today is the inspiration of an enthusiastic send...
...offering to build an attractive club restaurant, the Corporation meets the real basis of the demand for "a new Memorial." It also stands by the men who cannot afford to pay four dollars a week for their boards, and it does what no one has even asked it to do, offer the best and most varied accommodations to men who are in Cambridge only a part of each day, or fractions of each week...
...cannot give something. It simply narrows down to this that out of the $2,600 which are absolutely needed to send an eight to New London, only about eleven hundred have been pledged, and considerably less collected. It is getting late in the season and men cannot afford to put off the thought of doing their share in providing for their crew. It is time that Ninety-six should rise and show some spirit, or else be put down as a class out of sympathy with its surroundings. Let each man feel his individual responsibility, contribute what...