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...terms of the contract with Mr. Pach all sittings should have been made long ago. The heliotype albums, the appearance of which has already been delayed too long, cannot come out until the picture of every man in the class has been secured, and half a dozen men can put nearly a hundred of their classmates to inconvenience by causing its delay...
...before the Harvard Total Abstinence League last evening, which I cannot endorse. I have never signed a pledge, although quite willing to see them signed. I do not appear as a missionary among heathen and savages. The evils of intemperance in college life were worse in proportion fifty years ago. All habits then were coarse. Drinking habits in our American colleges are not so different from those in foreign universities. The speaker related his observations of the convivial side of student life at Oxford and at Heidelberg. He had early made up his mind to practice total abstinence...
...Jasper Club of Manhattan College, is one of the strongest college clubs," says the N. Y. Times, "and will play a number of match games this season. This club sometime ago was refused admission into the college association, but it is thought that it is equally as strong as any of the members of that association, as it gave evidence by playing a very close game with the Metropolitan Club last week...
...Cambridge races since 1829 is shown by a carefully compiled "Record of the University Boat Races 1829-1880," recently published in London, to be below the average death rate. Out of 485 who had taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton...
...good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly be disputed. It was said a good many years ago of a legal examination that not one of the examiners could have passed it. Strong in his own subject, each would have failed in one of the others. Might not a hint be taken from this that in future those who conduct the more severe examinations shall be required to pass...