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...Providence, R. I., the seat of Brown University, the resolutions adopted at the recent conference of college committees in New York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail...
With the two other "reforms" suggested, I have no fault to find, but, on the contrary, believe they might have the desired effect of improving our ranking system...
...effect of this armed suspicion is upon the instruction given, upon the students themselves it is even more depressing. Not content with ticketing us off with all Russia, indeed, by means of passports, the Government even forces on us the ignominy of a uniform which we are obliged to wear, under heavy penalties, at all times outside the University walls. We are treated as natural enemies and spies are set to watch us at every corner. No social position is given us. The army is the road to influence. We are permitted no discussion of local matters, much less matters...
...indication that the recent discussion in the Nation of the so-called senior society evil at Yale has not been without effect on the college itself, is seen in the fact that at a meeting of the senior class of the college last week a resolution condemning the system was lost by a very narrow vote. Naturally the discussion is one that chiefly interests Yale men, since the society system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that...
...gymnasium on Friday and Saturday of this week. An attempt will be made to increase the heating capacity of the boiler so as to render it capable of heating water quickly enough to meet the demand made upon it between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. To effect this it will be necessary to turn off the water for the time stated above...