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...Dartmouth claims that thirty per cent. of the students of that college are skeptics...
...athletic association of the University of Michigan has $3,000 invested in United States four per cent. bonds, worth on the market $3,600. There is also a surplus of over...
...German universities has been increasing of late years to an extent which causes alarm in some quarters. The number of students has gone up from 15, 113 in the summer of 1872 to 23,834 in the summer of 1882. This increase amounts to no less than 57.6 per cent. That the demand of modern life for men of education has increased to such an extent as this is regarded as more than doubtful by many authorities. An official warning has just been issued against students taking up the law as a profession, as its ranks are already hopelessly overcrowded...
...shut out the majority from participation in this sport. If they own boats, well and good; they can row when they like, and as long as they like; but, unfortunately, this luxury can be enjoyed only by the few. At Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Cornell less than five per cent. of the students row regularly; and in smaller colleges we find that, unless a regatta is anticipated, the boat-house is hardly opened at all. It benefits only those who undergo the three months' training, and is of personal interest only to those whose physique insures them a place...
...scholars, as a class, take too little exercise; and that the idlers take no exercise at all. When we consider the relative numbers in these several classes in all our colleges, it is safe to conclude that, of the whole number of students, not more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical exercise, and that less than six per cent. take it systematically as a means of culture and development. Surely, then, the charge that too much time is given to muscular education in our literary institutions has the slenderest possible foundation in the facts...