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...previous meeting the election of new members was in order, and A. B. Webber, '92, and D. T. Dickinson, L. S. were elected to membership. Of the three questions proposed for the next debate the following was selected: Resolved that a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. Mr. Dodge as a member of the executive committee then brought forward the following amendment to the constitution: The debate from the floor shall close at 10 o'clock unless a motion to the contrary is carried by 2-3 of the members present. This amendment is open to consideration...
...ground; an agricultural experiment station and a weather bureau have been established. Five hundred thousand dollars have been spent upon new buildings during the last year. Of the 1174 students, 708 come from New York state; all states and territories are represented, besides a number of students from Japan, Brazil, Sandwich Islands, and all European countries excepting Austria. Co-education is rapidly growing in favor, and there are 132 ladies attending college...
...Brazil is to have the first Academy of Arts in South America...
Professor Garman has a small Green snake - a southern variety - which he kept in a jar, and which is singularly unlike these others in character. It is a pretty creature and such as society belles wear as ornaments in parts of Brazil - and is very tame and affectionate. Its bed is a small ball of cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously...
...been noted that the present age is peculiarly prolific of royal authors. Among reigning sovereigns who have written books are Queen Victoria, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Dom Luis of Potugal, the Shah, Oscar II of Sweden, Prince Nakita of Montenegro, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Queen Elizabeth of Roumania; and among princes and princesses who have dabbled in literature are the Princess Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of the King of Sweden, the duke of Edinburgh, and the Compte de Paris...