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...Cambridge University crew is as follows: R. G. Gridley, 140 pounds (bow); 2, E. W. Haig, 161 lbs.; 3, P. G. S. Probert, 162 1-2 lbs.; 4, S. Swann, 188 lbs.; 5, F. E. Churchill, 190 lbs.; 6, J. C. Brown, 178 lbs.; 7, C. W. Moore, 167 lbs.; F. I. Pitman, 167 lbs. (stroke); C. Tyndal-Biscoe, 118 1-2 lbs. (cox). Average weight...
...instructors in the "Correspondence University," eight graduated at Cornell, six at Harvard, three at Yale, two at Amherst, and one each at Univ. Mich., Mich. Agricultural Col., Worcester Free Inst. Tech., Johns Hopkins, Vassar, Marietta, Brown, Columbia, and University of Lewisburg, besides several from abroad. Many, also, had taken P. G. courses in Johns Hopkins...
...matter was to have been brought up before the Brown faculty last week, but owing to press of other business it was deferred until Tuesday evening, when the faculty had a free discussion of the resolutions. While agreeing with the general tone of the paper, as intended to elevate athletics, they did not approve of several particulars, especially restrictions in regard to playing professional nines. They agreed with the resolve to do away with professional trainers. It is thought at Brown that the resolutions would practically kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason...
President Robinson of Brown University, at the alumni dinner in Boston last Wednesday evening, said: "Education has a two-fold purpose, first discipline and then the acquirement of knowledge. The first of these is the chief aim of academic training; not only discipline of intellect, but also discipline of all powers of man. Now, the discipline of all these powers is to be done by government, by the recognition that in colleges there are laws and laws are to be obeyed. So long as I remain where I am I propose that students shall cultivate habits of regularity and attention...
...cannot share in. We do not see any reason why it will be found impossible for Princeton, who expresses herself in favor of reasonable reforms and restrictions in athletics to adopt such reforms to suit her own needs and then arrive at a satisfactory convention with Yale and Brown by which inter-collegiate athletics can be continued at these colleges under reasonable restrictions, and all this without entering into the new agreement with Harvard and the rural colleges. In this event we see no outcome for Harvard but the total destruction of inter-collegiate sports. But this result would...