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...Richardson of Amherst, Easton of the University of Pennsylvania, Huss of Princeton, Walter of the University of Michigan, and Smith of Columbia. President Carter of Williams was chosen chairman, and a committee appointed to draw up a plan for the permanent organization of the society. A resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that no college should grant the degree of A. B. to any student who could not read with facility French and German, was discussed but no definite decision was reached. The subject of introducing a system of conversation in German and French...
...stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday shines not as a holiday. Even the founder's day of certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought to get through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem always afternoon...
...merchant of Venice" was recently performed at Oxford by the undergraduates and dons, assisted by ladies. It met with such success that a proposition is on foot to repeat it at some theatre in London. This introduction of theatricals at Oxford has had an important effect on the social life of the undergraduates. Hitherto they have devoted themselves almost entirely to athletics as means of recreation. during the last few years representations of Greek tragedies have become popular, and now with the aid of outside ladies they have success fully rendered a Shakespearean comedy...
...printed and remailed to the various college papers belonging to the I. P. A. The advantages of such a scheme are many, and only papers belonging to the I. P. a. can have this done. The Acta Columblana was chosen head office and the plan will go into effect immediately. As no further work remained to be done the meeting adjourned sine die at two o'clock...
...nevertheless undesirable from the point of view of morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well known that the late Stephen Girard so earnestly dispproved of theology as to direct in his will that no clergyman should be permitted to enter the college buildings. It is doubtful, however, if he intended to encourage the sale of mixed drinks on the premises...