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...list of courses there has been one very important addition, - the course in Physical training. It aims to provide a training for those who intend to study medicine, to fit men to take charge of gymnasiums, and to afford systematic instruction in exercise and hygiene to students who may need special care of their health. The applications which have already been made for admission to the course are numerous, and shows that it is likely to meet a need...
...completed in time to be used by the summer school of last year. A laboratory for the course in Physical Training has been established on the lower floor of Lawrence Hall, and a grant of one thousand dollars from the income of the school has made it possible to fit this with apparatus...
...fit cause for congratulation that the university can look forward to the immediate erection of a new dormitory and particularly of a reading-room, which has been a long felt want. Both gifts come at the time when we feel most grateful for them. The constantly increasing number of students, particularly of those who come here of limited means, has made us realize only too well that the dormitory accommodations have been far from sufficient, and each year the number of men who are forced to room in private houses has been constantly growing. The inconveniences of our present reading...
...appointments of President Francis Walker of the Institute of Technology as orator, and of Mr. Morris Thompson as poet, of the Phi Beta Kappa exercises for this year, are very satisfactory. President Walker is too well known to need any words of explanation, and his scholarly attainments admirably fit him for the place of orator. While Mr. Morris Thompson is not so well known, perhaps, he is nevertheless a man of marked ability and learning and will make an excellent choice for poet. Certainly these two positions could not be filled by better representative...
Once made poet laureate, Dryden's career as dramatist closes and he now turns to satire. In satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...