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...Brown student who was searching, a few days ago, for a missing piece of property in the dismantled interior of University Hall noticed among the ruins of the chimney an old document of singular appearance, which curiosity led him to examine closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light...
...after all, the strongest argument in favor of the elective system is the way in which educators are being converted to its support and in which college after college is swinging into line. Almost unknown on this continent a half-score years ago, it has now obtained more or less recognition from nearly every college of repute in the land...
...scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better than his own wretched one. And the boy is morally as badly equipped as pecuniarily. Long ago the uneducated and soft-hearted father lost his authority over his son, who, with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone, proud of his independence, which...
...oldest of the original colonies, should have no course in colonial history. This subject has occupied the attention of many of the best scholars of the country, and recent years have done much to add to our stock of knowledge. The course was conducted a few years ago by Mr. Lodge, one of the most prominent students of the subject, but was given up. One of the reasons for its discontinuance was a lack of students. But the same arguments that favor the maintenance of departments in Semitic languages obtain in the case of such a course. The course...
Princeton College students took an active part in a recent mayoralty election. The re-election of the present incumbent was opposed by them on occount of his prosecution of the twenty sophomores who were arrested for breaking street lamps more than a year ago. Fully two hundred students voted against...