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...through the long winter and for that matter all through college. Get into the habit of using the library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction or biography, followed out during a whole lerm or year, will probably give the best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long...
...their thoughts to some feat of athletic prowess." In rebuttal of this statement, Mr. Blaikie instances President Eliot and Professor Agassiz of Harvard and Dr. McCosh and Mr. Gladstone. "Yet the former two did excellent work in their university boat. Princeton's famous president, if our information is correct, rowed in the Dublin university crew, and the British prime minister can now, at seventy-three, probably cut down more trees in a day than any merchant, banker, or professional man of his age in the city of New York, yet finds time to grapple with the most intricate and difficult...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Gentlemen: I enclose a clipping from a recent number of the HERALD-CRIMSON. There is a serious error which I would like to have you correct. The Correspondence University has no connection whatever with Cornell University, other than the fact that a number of Cornell professors are members of the Cornell University faculty. The trustees of Cornell have known nothing about the matter. Special pains have been taken not to have it run for or against the interests of any educational institution. Although at the outset there are more professors from Cornell than from any other institution...
...education at Princeton, the Princetonian says: "In the catalogue, this year, the minimum average and maximum expenditure of the students will be stated as $290, $400, and $700 respectively; and every one who has been a member of this institution knows, from personal observation, that these figures are approximately correct. In the estimate just quoted, tuition is included, but since nearly one-half of the students are excused from paying it, more properly it should be deducted. Thus making the minimum $225, and the average $325. It is difficult to see what arrangement could be more reasonable or satisfactory than...
...record, says: "The Executive committee of the National Association will act wisely if at their next meeting they fix a standard of weight for the ball itself, even if they do not adopt a length-limit for the handle, which latter, however, they ought to do, in order that corrects comparisons may be instituted between the performances of different athletes. It would also be advisable for the committee to adopt a rule prohibiting the use of privately-owned heavy-weight implements at all athletic meetings held under the association laws, and making it compulsory upon the club or association holding...