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...changes have been made lately in the faculty. The chair of English Literature is now being filled by Prof. Brown, late president of Hamilton College, who now is engaged in hearing the juniors. Prof. Sanborn, instructor in Anglo-Saxon and English Literature, who is now engaged with the seniors, has resigned, his resignation to take effect at the end of this college year. In his retirement the college loses an old and valued instructor who has remained with the institution for many years...
...valedictory address at Brown University has been assigned to William Henry Pomeroy of Springfield, Mass...
...Brown University Nine, which opens the series of inter-collegiate games May 6 by a game with Harvard, will probably be as follows: Smith, p.; Basset, c. and 3d b.; Chase, 1st b.; Doran, 2d b.; Greene, 3d b. and c.; Dilts, s.; Durfee, Payne and Waterman in the field; Tillinghast or Graves, substitute. The team will adopt a straw hat for every day wear, similar to the Harvard Nine last year...
...Crimsons with the Mets rather turned attention to a college a little to the northeast of New Haven. The close games that Princeton has played with first-class nines gives an intimation of a formidable opponent in the New Jersey college; and the exciting twelve-inning game of Brown and the Lowells, resulting in a tie, indicates that the college of Rhode Island has a nine not much inferior to the best. It is certainly more desirable for the interest in base-ball in all the colleges that the nines are to be thus more evenly matched than formerly...
...undergraduate for a full year, including the long vacation, the sum of $1200. Dr. Abbott says the English college student is the "university gentleman." "No student smokes in the streets; no gentleman student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard of." The sentiment is that it is worse to be vulgar than to be wicked...