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...Regatta Committee reported a long list of promises for the fulfilment of which the Saratoga Rowing Association had given bonds, which would seem to embrace everything that could be desired. The finish is to be off Ramsdell's Point, so that the start will be on the west side of Snake Hill, in order that more people can see the race and that there shall be no danger of beaching on Ramsdell's Point. The positions of the crews are, numbering from the west shore: 1, Williams; 2, Cornell; 3, Amherst; 4, Bowdoin; 5, Brown; 6, Columbia; 7, Wesleyan...
...English government watch the debates in order to select the most promising speakers and put them in office; whether this be true or not, there have certainly been many men who were prominent in the Societies and afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers...
...delivered. I have not the report of the Oxford Union, but in Cambridge the debates seem quite well attended; I did not find less than seventy-seven who voted on any motion, and there were over a hundred present at most of the meetings. There is a very interesting list of the additions made to the Library during the last year and of the periodicals taken by the Society, which shows that the members are intelligent and interested in the latest researches in all departments of knowledge. The whole system seems to be directed to the development of a riper...
...That a list of those students who wish to join be opened at the Gymnasium, and when a sufficient number have entered to justify the movement, that the license of the Governor of Massachusetts be applied for, to be followed by a requisition for State arms; about which there will be no difficulty, as I understand the organization will be both sanctioned and encouraged by the highest authority in the University...
...name, we at first supposed it to be devoted to the missionary interests in Central Africa; but upon investigation, it appeared to be an exceedingly bright sheet, conducted by the members of Blackheath School, near London. We shall take great pleasure in adding these papers to our exchange-list...