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...satisfactory to learn that the Trustees of Girard College have decided not to allow its property in future to be used for bar-room purposes. However convenient it may be for the Faculty that the building of the college should be provided with a bar, it is nevertheless undesirable from the point of view of morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well...
...have become so accustomed to hearing criticisms on the conduct of the students at our American colleges, that it is somewhat of a relief to learn that our English cousins are not entirely above reproach in that respect. Of course we should no more judge the great body of English students by the few cases of disorder which occur, than we ourselves ought to be condemned because of the misconduct of a few. An editorial in the current number of the "London Graphic," in commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict...
...Knapp finds several faults, each of which contributed to bring about the disaster,-some of which an examination would have shown, and some not. Neither the club nor the college seems to be to blame in particular, although we must confess it seems to us quite unsatisfactory to learn that, when a little careful investigation would have saved us from the accident, it was not made. That no one knew such an investigation was needed cannot possibly be an excuse ; it ought to have been known, and the structure made safe. Carelessness, however slight, is inexcusable where human life...
From the catalogue of Yale just issued we learn that the total number of students in all departments is 1092, which is four less than last year, and 430 less than the number in our catalogue of 1883-84. Thus while we have gained nearly a hundred since last year, Yale has not advanced ; but actually shows a small decrease in attendance. No change has been made in the various courses for this year. One change is noticeable, that of the lengthening of the long vacation from eleven to twelve weeks and a corresponding shortening of the Christmas holidays from...
...learn from Mr. Robinson that the Princeton faculty will not permit the nine to play the customary exhibition game in Cambridge this year. We are sorry to be compelled to do away with an old established custom, and trust that the faculty will revoke their decision...