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...question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity, and the disgusting pretentiousness of Young America are the common results of the system. Let the college campus be the playground of the collegians, and let them there engage in any form of impromptu pastime under the eyes of their teachers and guardians. This is wholesome and sensible and satisfactory to wise parents. But, in the name of morality and common sense, do not let them become strolling players and itinerent roughs through the country...
...dancing. "If the Rev. Mr. Harris," he says, "who so grossly insulted all devotees of dancing at his church in this city last Sunday night, would lower himself enough to look down upon one such scene as this, he would at least be compelled to confess that the human form is capable of more poetry than can be found at the average gossipy tea drinks." And then with a grand burst of philosophical sentiment he exclaims, "And does a creating Divinity forbid his humanity's making the most of the powers he has given to it to make itself beautiful...
...Prof. Jevons contemplate the establishment, somewhere in Lancashire, of a suitable Jevons memorial, and a meeting was recently called to take the preliminary steps. Prof. Jevons was a Lancashire man. For many years he was associated with the Owens College at Manchester, and with the Manchester Statistical Society. One form which it has been proposed that the memorial shall take is that of a professorship of political economy at Victoria University at Manchester...
...although it might not be advisable for any of our future oarsmen to take a thorough course of training at Exeter, and thus get into bad form and rowing habits inconsistent with our stroke here, still enough work to accustom men to swinging an oar and sitting in a boat would be eminently beneficial to those Exeter men who expect to row after entering Harvard...
...Muller's series of lectures on "India: What Can it Teach Us," which have been delivered before the students of the University of Cambridge, will be revised and published shortly in book form...