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...Providence, R. I., the seat of Brown University, the resolutions adopted at the recent conference of college committees in New York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail...
...Boston Association of the Brown Alumni will hold their eleventh annual rennion on February 13 at Young's Hotel, Boston. The association includes in its membership the alumni of Boston and vicinity, and those of Providence are invited. The New York association holds its reunion next month under the direction of the President, Mr. George William Curtis. Dr. Robinson and probably one or two other members of the faculty are expecting to attend this latter meeting...
...Debating Society, with a membership of about forty, was established recently. The society "system" differs at Brown from that found at most of the New England colleges. There are no chapter buildings here, nor any society houses. The halls are all in city buildings, the locations of which are supposed to be profound mysteries. It was rumored a few months ago that another fraternity was seeking entrance here. The ground has been well covered, and a new society would find it hard to obtain suitable members...
Bicycle tournaments will be held next season at Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Brown and Columbia...
Among the interesting relics belonging to the late Wendell Phillips was a collection of pikes and walking sticks. One pike had been carried by a man who took part with John Brown in the attack on Harpers Ferry. Of the canes one belonged to Daniel O'Connell, the Irish agitator, and another had been the property of Charles Sumner...