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...treasurer towards the fund for retiring allowances, and also towards the permanent observatory fund; besides other minor matters of interest. The overseers have been agitated by the question of the restriction of "drunkenness upon the campus at commencement." Under "University Notes," Librarian Sibley's Harvard Necrology is continued, various correction and additions up to date being included in the correct list. The death of Edward Oakes, a graduate of the class of 1679, is now first recorded. The most noted name among Harvard's dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual minute and scholarly list of accessions...
...told that the book was not in the library, but that if it were he would not get it, as he, Harvey, regarded it as not being a fit book for him to read. Of course not. It is a text-book of patriotism, liberty, philanthrophy and correct politics. It teaches loyalty and calls treason by its proper name; therefore the young Virginians ought not to read...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take a hint, and endeavor to call things (especially lawn tennis) by their correct names." The players of lawn tennis in college should take the hint so freely offered and put to shame the bitter pessimism of that last sentence...
Four members of the society, who bought Taine's Intelligence a few weeks ago, may correct, on application at the office, an error in price made by the dealer. Correction in favor of the purchasers...