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...trustees of Columbia have provided temporary gymnasium accommodations for the college, and in consequence of the expense incurred thereby have withdrawn their annual gift of $200 for college sports. The Spectator suggests the holding of a winter meeting (similar to those at Harvard and Yale) in the gymnasium next term...
...York Times says very pertinently of the recent scrape of the Williams College freshmen, that "the incident shows for the hundreth time the imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly...
...stiff white pillow-shams pinned on enormous pillows standing up endwise at the head of the bed, and each "sham" has two creases, so that the "sham" may be folded in four and laid on a chair when one goes to bed. A stiff white bed-cover (a wedding gift to Mrs. Butterfield from her mother) is on the bed, with three creases, one from end to end and two across, so that it too may be folded in a regulation number of folds and be laid on a chair with the "shams...
While the discussion of Benjamin's future is going on in Mrs. Butterfield's room, Benjamin himself is in the parlor reading a book entitled, "Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God," published by subscription, and left as a parting gift by the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot...
...possible that the plans for the Law School will be changed, as the amount of the gift may not be sufficient to cover the cost of the building now proposed...