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...report of President Eliot is none the less interesting because of its somewhat tardy appearance. The brief summary which we print in our columns this morning will serve to give a general impression of the nature of its contents. The report is, on the whole, of a gratifying nature, showing, as it does, an increase in the number of the students in almost all the departments of the University. In a later issue we shall give brief summaries of the reports of the treasurer of the University, and of the Deans of the several professional schools...
...very successful, although short career at Yale, has been obliged to suspend active participation in college sports because of pecuniary embarrassment, and the name of Yale has been dropped from the members of the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association. This is not the only exception to the general theory, for were it so, it might justly be claimed that this single exception proved the rule. But we understand from reliable sources that many of the organizations at our sister college, (if we may call such masculine rival as Yale by this term), are only a little better off than...
...will be seen by a notice in this issue, some members of the Freshman class are starting a freshman glee club. They wish to make it a general class matter, and we should urge all freshmen who have had any practice in singing, and who care to give the time to it, to present themselves to-day at the trial. When the spring comes, and men begin to loaf on the grass in the yard after dinner on warm evenings, it will be a very pleasant thing for the freshmen to have as a nucleus, a knot of fellows...
...believers in it number about 20,000,000 persons. A commission, of which the lecturer is a member, has been established to investigate this subject, but it has not yet thought it wise to publish the results of its researches. The credulity of people in general, the danger of accepting the desire for the reality and ignorance of what are natural laws, are great obstacles in the way of such an investigation. The lecturer in closing expressed his belief that before long, some definite conclusions would be arrived at. The next lecture in this course will be given on Friday...
...Winter Meeting of March 21, the handicapt in the two-hand fence vault does not count for the general excellence prize, nor for the class prize. A record medal will be given to anyone who breaks a Harvard record in any event...