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...four "halls," which latter are not "corporate" bodies, nor have they endowments for fellows, nor, with a trifling exception, scholarships; while if they have or acquire property it is held in trust for them by the university. Students in these halls, generally older men than those at the colleges, live under the same discipline and pass to their degrees in the same way as others, being, of course, subject to all the laws of the university...
...system becomes so accustomed to it as not at the time to exhibit any effect, yet it tends to irritate the nervous system. If it were not for the action of the liver and kidneys in throwing off the tobacco poison, a user of the weed could not live. The action of these organs is shown by the yellowish tint and puffed condition of the skin of the habitual tobacco user. Although it has been much discussed whether or not tobacco is good for a man when used moderately, yet there can be no doubt of its injuriousness to growing...
...umpires. The secretary shall obtain the addresses in full of each umpire and publish the list in Spalding's Base-Ball Guide. ???2. The visiting club, not less than seven days before each game shall submit to the home club the names of seven umpires, none of whom shall live in the city of the visiting club or be an alumnus or undergraduate of either college. The home club shall produce one of the seven umpires on the ground in season for the game; in case of non-compliance with this section the umpire shall be chosen by the visiting...
...institution of a new assistant professorship in the English department, again suggests the ill-considered treatment of the department of political economy. In Political Economy, a subject of live interest and great popularity, it is reported that the faculty expect to reduce the working force, while the English department, where the instruction, as far as the prescribed courses are concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain...
...Ruskin, as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford, declines to live in the rooms offered him in Corpus Christi College. He says he cannot spend the autumn of his days "in a city of brick lodging houses and scraped schools," and will accordingly take up his abode, for a time at least at Cumnor...