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...acknowledge the receipt of a finely gotten up catalogue of Hillsdale college. From it we learn that the number of students in attendance in the different courses there is 1000. The number is divided as follows: Graduates, 23; seniors, 20; juniors, 30; sophomors, 44; freshmen, 82. In the preparatory classes are 538; theological department, 34; commercial department, 173; musical department, 170; art department, 93. Deducting those named more than once, it leaves a total...
...many instances in this country is an undoubted fact, but to succeed requires careful management. As some one has said, only a philanthropist ought to manage a cooperative store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important position in having taken the initiative, adapting this attempt in economic finance to the peculiar circumstances and customs of student life...
...prepared." Professor - "It is the tooth of a cat given to the college in the nineteenth century. How long tails had the cats in that age?" Class - "Seven and one-half feet." Professor - "Yes, this tooth proves that some were over twenty feet in length. What else may we learn from this?" Class - "That's as far as the lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk. Therefore man descended from a cat. You will, without review, be examined tomorrow morning for one hour on the last 4,000 pages...
...Institute Building track is in charge of J. S. Prince, who has a large stock of bicycles and tricycles in active service every afternoon for patrons to learn and practice on, and many avail themselves of so excellent an opportunity to use the best in-door track in the world. The scrub races there Wednesday afternoon were largely enjoyed by wheelmen and others. [Bicycling World...
...guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune of Feb. 20, we learn that "the boating men of Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening...