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...interesting. The work was begun in a modest way last February. College men were asked to support it with their time and their money, but the response was not very encouraging. Nothing daunted a few energetic spirits went ahead, established the work, and persevered in it. The Union has grown and prospered, until now a very important work is being done and the field is constantly broadening and opening up new possibilities to the workers. It still asks the same sort of aid from the college that it did in the beginning, but the appeal has a very real force...
...University Extension; for Brown as a centre for this subject has had a considerable growth and success. The catalogue will give a good deal of space to the Graduate Department. The various courses in this department will be described and the requirements noted; the Graduate department at Brown has grown a good deal lately and should receive some attention in the catalogue. The frontispiece, which is always an engraving of the University's leading professors will this year show the features of Professor Clarke. Two new instructors in civil engineering and one in Greek and one in English have been...
...hardly noticed as such. Physical training has had but few scientific exponents; for the most part men have taken their exercise as they pleased. The new step in the Lawrence Scientific School, however, recognizes the fact that physical training demands more scientific instructors, and that it has grown to be so important that it is worth a man's while to give himself up to teaching that kind of work. And that is the very object of this course; it is to fit men to look at physical culture as a science worth studying, and as an art worth practising...
Since Dr. Abbot's reply to Professor Royce's critique in the June number of the Journal of Ethics the literature on the controversy has grown rapidly. In the July number of the periodical a reply by Professor Royce to Dr. Abbot appeared, and in the same number a retort by Dr. Abbot, which was to have been the final word in the matter was to have appeared as well, but did not owing to a misunderstanding between the Editors and Dr. Abbot in regard to the character in which this last retort should be framed. Dr. Abbot then made...
...concluding paragraph strikes such an admirable key-note to the whole that we cannot forbear to quote: "Of course, it is to be expected that the outside world will misinterpret and misrepresent this action (the removal of Corbett, Mackie and Waters from probation). However, our college has grown steadily in the face of such attacks, and every year adds to its triumphs as a leader in the fields of a university life. We doubt not that when they are understood, the rulings of our faculty with regard to probation will, like other of our institutions, acquire general favor. And until...