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...classics given by the instructors in those departments for students and outsiders, and some lectures by prominent strangers visiting or travelling in this part of the state; but these are about all. It is seldom that we hear any authoritative statements on the practical questions of so much interest to a large class of students. Much is taught about some of these subjects in the various courses but this instruction is necessarily confined...
...Mercury the organ of the College of the City of New York, says: "Among many organizations already formed at Harvard, a rifle club has been organized. Students throughout the country are beginning to take a hearty interest in rifle shooting. At the University of California such a club has proved a success. We are surprised that a limited association has not been heretofore thought of at our own college...
...revival of the boating interest in the Law School and their determination to put a good crew upon the river will give additional interest to the class races this year. It will be another inducement for the crews to work hard, as the men who will fill half of the seats in the new crew were last year reckoned among the best oarsmen in college. It will be practically an '83 crew, and that class always held an enviable position on the water from the time when, as freshmen, they walked away from the other boats in their very first...
...Transcript is responsible for the statement that "Yale has got the Smithsonian Institution Government fixed again in her interest as against Harvard's." What this dark hint may mean we cannot fathom. That there has been any active contest between the scientific professors of Yale and of Harvard for the control of the Smithsonian Institute, as this item would imply, is certainly a matter of news to the majority. Why Harvard should wish such control it is not easy to see. No, the Transcript is engaged in a very reprehensible business in fomenting jealousy between Yale and Harvard by dropping...
...students competing for the Townsend prize the following: "Regulations of Inter-State Commerce," "Strikes," "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil-Rights Bill" and "Government Control of the Telegraph." Congress and the country at large will await the settlement of these important questions with breathless interest. [Lowell Citizen...