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...Williams Athenaeum advances an admirable idea in proposing and advocating the establishment of a stronger "inter-collegiate feeling" among the colleges of this country. "Let us," it says, "discuss in our departments matters of general interest to the college press, and college world; create an inter-collegiate feeling beyond the mere exchange of college publications. There is enough which concerns us all, to make at least one department of our publications reach farther than our own campus confines." The growth of such a feeling is, we think, coming naturally in the course of events. Inter-collegiate sports, races and meetings...
There is a general local sentiment in favor of the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...justly be doubted whether a general publishing business comes within the proper scope of a university. Still in a measure the fostering and encouragement of letters and research must be included in the field of work of all higher institutions of learning. Five journals of research are conducted under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University; and the Pitt press at Cambridge and the Clarendon press at Oxford have long been famous. These enterprises certainly add to the influence of colleges where they are located and extend their usefulness. Harvard has done little in such ways; principally no doubt because...
Harvard men naturally find the local papers of other colleges generally of little interest. Of course, a Harvard reader can always find something of interest in the papers of Yale, Columbia or Princeton, our great athletic rivals, but in other respects few of them are worthy of extended perusal. The Columbia Spectator finds many readers here, however, and is always a paper of sufficient merit and brightness to repay reading. The Princeton Tiger is of the same class, only "more so," and is rapidly becoming a very entertaining and valuable publication. But the journal which, in our opinion, would...
...additions which may be made for many years to come. It measures 28 by 45 on each story, with a bay 13 by 19, while the upper story has two additional rooms, each 28 by 33. Communicating with the book room on the eastern side, is the professors' general room, 28 by 33, reached from the vestibule by the turret staircase before mentioned. This will be fitted with a carved fireplace like that in the large reading room. Leading from this is the dean's room, which also opens into the reading room. The finish on this floor will...