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...meeting was not very full, only fifty or sixty members being present. But Mr. William Thayer, of the class of '81, was present and when Captain Pfeiffer made a motion to have a resolution passed to the effect that a graduate advisory committee be appointed, he advocated it and seemed to think that the graduates would take an interest, and would work for the crew. Discussion then ensued as to the advisability of this committee and what powers it should have. Mr. Pfeiffer said his idea was that this committee of three men should be chosen and elected...
...Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke of the Cambridge crew named Smith wished to go to China as missionaries. An opportunity was given them to speak to the students at Edinburgh. They were most enthusiastically received and their word had the most marvelous effect. There were countless instances of conversion. It was suggested that the workers should go to other universities. Everywhere they found agnostics, unbelievers, but their influence was such that many were converted, especially at the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow...
...that meeting, the said proposed rules or changes shall be acted upon and be returned by the Intercollegiate Association, with its approval or disapproval to the advisory committee at its summer meeting, to occur on the first Saturday in June. Those rules or changes approved, shall forthwith take effect; these disapproved shall go over for consultation until the following spring, unless they shall receive four votes in the Advisory Committee, in which case they shall immediately take effect...
...condemn all undue show of solemnity, all sanctimoniousness. The religion of a young man need notice that of his grandmother, but a practical every-day Christianity, doing its good in unostentatious ways. Second, there is no interference with work. Meetings are held on Sunday. Yet those have shown their effect on the 3,600 students at Edinburgh in the three years that they have been held. Third, there is no interference with athletics or amusements, and many of the athletic men are workers in the cause. Some have gone to live in the slums of Edinburgh, not to distribute tracts...
Tuition rates will probably be raised ten dollars a vear in the Academic department at Yale, the raise to go into effect next year...