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...called up many memories. On this very spot and in a church of the same name, Ruprecht I five hundred years before dedicated the university to religion and knowledge. The building was filled to the last man possible. The oration was a masterly production, and was delivered in a manner befitting the great occasion. Like all Germans, Doctor Fisher is nothing if not exhaustive; and in the course of the two hours and a half that he occupied. he succeeded in exhausting, not only his subject but his entire audience. The Grand Duke and the Duchess, indeed, preserved an admirable...
...managed to win a game; but they apparently have no "sand" left after this one game. They found that foot-ball meant work, and so they have stopped playing foot-ball entirely. For a week they have done nothing except come out on the field in a leisurely manner, look round a little while, and then go in again, perfectly satisfied with themselves. They ought to play every afternoon from three to four, against themselves, and then a picked eleven or fifteen ought to play the university from quarter of five to five. Yale does not loaf in any such...
...paddling race for single canoes has been added to the list of entries, provided four men enter. Entries must be made in the same manner as in the other races. All entries close November...
...college in saying that the gospel, as preached to us, is not just what it should be. When we consider that the four years of college life will determine our religious convictions in great part, we think that the subject should be presented to us in the best manner possible, and not in such a way as to drive us to scepticism from sheer indifference. If we are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, we can hardly be expected to develop practical and robust Christianity to help us in our daily life, and not a general shaking...
...Dunbar on "The Reaction in Political Economy," written in his lucid, entertaining style, it shows forcibly the transition stage through which Political Economy is now passing. Mr. Arthur T. Hadley contributes a paper on "Private Monopolies and Public Rights," which treats the subject in a very concise and interesting manner, with particular attention to railroad monopolies. "Silver before Congress in 1886" is the title of an article by Mr. S. Dana Norton. The complicated question is discussed with a simplicity and directness rarely found, when difficult financial problems are set before the general reader. The part of the magazine devoted...