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...meeting of the Alumni of Brown, of Boston and vicinity, President Robinson expressed himself as follows on the subject of athletics: "The students composing these bodies (foot ball and base ball teams), make study a secondary consideration. This I submit is a prodigious shame throughout the whole country. (Great applause.) I believe in a gymnasium, where every student will be compelled to take regular exercise under a competent instructor...
...canvass is being made in the Brown Freshman class to see if the money necessary to support a crew can be raised...
...regular battery of the Brown nine this year will be Gunderson and Clark. with Humes and Wooster, '88, as substitutes...
Professor Jencks of Brown University, has just started on a long tour, to go to Alaska, and to the Sandwich Islands...
...much less at other colleges where the temptation to spend money is less. Mr. Thwing, in an article in Scribner's Monthly, several years ago, placed the average annual expenses of a student at the various colleges as follows: Harvard, $1,000; Yale, $1,000; Amherst, $700; Princeton, $600; Brown, Bowdoin or Williams, $500. While the average Yale man may not spend as much as the average Harvard man in entertainment's, his subscriptions to sports and his society dues are much greater...