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...Jewish college is to be started at Newport, R. I., to be called Touro College. Many of the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...
...board, and therefore should not be done away with. In making up the price for the term, an approximated element, arising from the fact that the board for two or three weeks must be calculated ahead, must be taken into consideration. We would deprecate any thoughtless and unnecessary complaint on the part of members of the association, as calculating to injure the interests of the hall and of the six hundred students who board there. As we understand it, affairs are thoroughly investigated each month by an auditor who is regarded as fully competent for the position; and furthermore...
...substance of the complaint I can only say that I got my first subscription to the class fund in March, and still found time to see every member of the class before commencement day. I do not think that class secretaries usually begin this part of their work very much before this time. Our fund was a large one, and there is no reason yet why '83's should not be as large...
Hamilton Fish, the president of the board of trustees of Columbia College, makes complaint, in a recent interview, that the claims of Columbia to popular notice in the shape of gifts of money have been overlooked. Mr. Fish says: "Columbia College has only had two gifts in the form of money, and one of them is of no avail yet. * * * There has been an occasional scholarship established; but compare this record with that of Harvard and other large colleges. They are constantly receiving large contributions...
...also rackets very much curved to make them of use for balls high and to one side, while the straight rackets are for those who are not good at judging the position of the ball, and besides there are all the old styles. We will, in fact, have no complaint to make in regard to rackets for the coming year. Our sole grievance is the wayward ways of the wicked little "mucker...