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...night, when some clothing belonging to Trusdell and Brown was found near Thompson's Island. Yesterday morning the bodies of two men were found and were identified as the bodies of Bach and Brown. There was no news of the other men late last night and it seems almost certain that they too were drowned...
...Yale won by the efforts of men who had worked hard in former years without seeing any great success result; in the other two Yale had at work her heavy men prominent in other forms of athletics. Harvard had only one man in each event. Now it is perfectly certain that there are a number of men here who if they had trained persistently could have done something for the University in these events, but they did not take the trouble. Part of the men in Harvard are just as spirited, just as plucky, have just as much "sand...
...words of Professor Richet "the alliance will establish between the members of the divers universities, professors or students, a union founded upon relations more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the obstacles which now confine the students within their respective countries. This is so much more necessary since, despite the present facilities of roads and telegraph, universities are now less connected than they were in the thirteenth century, when it took months to travel between the universities of Paris and of Bologna...
Since then Harvard has certain advantages which cannot be extended to women through Radcliffe as a medium, and since these can probably be extended directly without any sensible disturbance of present conditions, we see no reason why they should not be extended. Much good and no harm will result...
Leaving out of consideration those scholarships by the terms of which certain individuals are given preference, the scholarships are today awarded in this wise. All applicants must first establish their need for money; then scholarships are assigned to them according to rank. That is to say, the question of need is made the basis for forming a general group, and the the group is subdivided minutely on the question of future usefulness. This is manifestly absurd. Future usefulness, since it is so largely an unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs...