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...been decided at Oxford University that the dues payable by members during their first four years of life there be increased. The cause of this is certain unremunerative expenditures that have been made, the benefit of which accrues almost wholly to undergraduates. Among these are the Taylorian Galleries; the parks (pound38,800); the museum (pound15,000, all of which, except the cost of the site, has been paid out of income); an observatory (pound7,500); a new chemical laboratory (pound7,500); the restoration of the Bodleian edifice (pound20,000); the new schools site (pound38,000), and the new schools building...
...future Choates and Sumners. Of course some skeptic will tell of that much-abused indifference, and of the state of college life here, so different from that existing at Yale, but we are almost persuaded that not only would such an institution as a University Club be a certain success, but would tend to create a more fraternal feeling that would in many ways accrue to the common weal of the university, graduates and students...
...feared that the purpose will be seriously interfered with before leaving Cambridge. In a few days a notice will be posted, inviting all those who desire to anticipate Rhetoric to assemble at a certain time and place to receive instructions as to the best manner of preparing for the examination. Would-be candidates amounting in number to, perhaps, three-fourths of the class will be surprised to find on assembling that the main efforts of the instructor who receives them is not to make plain how best to study the subject during the summer, in order to successfully take...
...funny man of the Times thus moralizes over Dr. Schliemann's recent discoveries: "When Dr. Schliemann digs for any particular thing, whether it is a city, a tomb, or a set of jewelry, he is morally certain to find it. He dug for Noah's ark in the Hill of Hissarlik, and he found it on the second day, not more than seventy feet below the surface. Later excavations have laid bare the entire ark, though, thanks to the great discoverer's precaution in putting a board fence around it and in compelling his workmen to dig with their eyes...
...athletics, gymnastics, etc.; the provision of special libraries on subjects pertaining to physical education; careful study in the construction of buildings for recitation and dormitory purposes, with special reference to counteracting the acknowledged evils of the dormitory system; the requirement (whenever practicable) that candidates for admission shall reach a certain standard of attainment in physical education." The circular, advising the taking of statistics, says: "Such statistics should be taken at regular intervals throughout the college course. As taken by Dr. Sargent, of Harvard University, in his ladies' gymnasium at Cambridge, they have proved valuable as well as interesting...