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...rumored that the Law School Blaine battalion will attempt to relieve the seniors of their transparency showing the result of the canvass in that class, 95 to 58 in favor of Cleveland...
...pamphlet which has been issued by the instructors in Forensics has been received by the students with considerable satisfaction. For several years the forensic department of this university has not received the attention which it deserves. Last year an attempt was made to arouse some interest in the courses by forming voluntary advanced sections, but the effort was only partially successful. Now, however, several lectures will be given on the subject of forensic writing, lists of subjects in the different departments of study have been carefully prepared, and the entire system has been changed. Instead of the four forensics...
...Natural History Society is again making an attempt to shake off the lethargy to which it has been a prey for many years. Once a society of great activity and usefulness, it has in recent years almost faded out of the public notice, except for an occasional lecture delivered under its auspices. We hope that this time the effort to improve itself will be a real one and not quite as futile as many of those feeble attempts to renewed action made during our recollection. The society has the opportunity of making itself very useful in advancing the study...
...went to the bat. Coolidge led off with a base hit between third and shortstop. Baker made another, sending him to second base. Phillips followed with a clean hit over McCarthy's head, bringing in Coolidge and sending Baker to second, and both men took another base on the attempt to catch Coolidge at the plate. Tilden took first on seven balls. With the bases full, Nichols knocked a high fly to Fellows, which was muffed, and Baker scored. Phillips and Tilden taking third and second bases respectively. LeMoyne flied out to Fellows and Phillips scored; Allen...
...hundred years ago, when the college was yet young, the requisition for entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound...