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...Prof. Van Ingen, director of the School of Painting, and the first of a series of lectures and concerts under the management of Dr. Ritter, director of the School of Music, lectures on the following subjects have been given: "Alexander Hamilton," by President Backus, of Packer Institute; "The Heroic Element in History" and "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day," by Dr. George P. Fisher, of Yale; "The Lotus in the Decorative Art," by Mr. William H. Goodyear, "The Hope of the Prisoner," by Mr. Wm. M. T. Round; "Charity Organization Societies," by the Hon. Seth Low; "A Plea...
...belonging to the "set" he is describing. Placing the total number of undergrates at 1200, an over-estimate, the size of the set according to the writer's calculation would be 60 men; but a few pages later, this number grows to 100. Not satisfied with this, writer adds element after element until he builds up a result that might well cause the reader to cry out in astonishment. He generalizes unfairly from the actions of a very few men. He speaks of the general extravagance of the social clubs of the college; he charges college men with ungentlemanly conduct...
...speakers at the meeting of the Tariff Reform Association on Friday evening. It is asserted that the meeting could in no way be spoken of as representing the thought and feeling of the University as a whole, and in order to show the strength of the Republican element in the University it is proposed that a Republican club be organized. A call for a meeting of Republicans, now being circulated among the Law School men, has already found seventy signatures, and a large number of the Republicans of the Law School have not yet had an opportunity to sign...
...what has Yale with which to meet these two rivals-one desperate with defeat and the other confident of her strength. Yale takes up the contest with one element in her favor, and that is the enormous amount of material from which to draw her men and against whom to practice the ones selected. Yale's succession of victories has brought to her doors many men who, were it not for their love of football, might have strayed to other colleges. The desire to be on the Yale team has inspired them to hard work in the preparatory schools...
...Conference Francaise has decided to charge admission to the lecture in order to help pay off a small indebtedness of the society contracted by the heavy expenses of last year's theatricals, and also to keep out an element which generally attends public lectures in Cambridge more from an idle curiosity than from any genuine interest in the affair. We trust that when M. Coquelin comes he may be as well repaid for his visit as those who will have the opportunity to hear...