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...superintendent of the Columbia gymnasium has adopted a novel method of demonstrating to the authorities the imperative need of a new gymnasium. Says the Spectator: "The gymnasium begins to be densely crowded every afternoon, and the need of a new and larger gymnasium is more apparent than ever. In order to have the means of accurately determining the daily attendance, Mr. Cuthbertson, the instructor, has provided a box, in which every one who uses the gymnasium places a card with his name written on it. It is to be hoped that when our liberal (!) and progressive (?) Board of Trustees find...
...public meeting of the Total Abstinence League was held last evening in Sever 11, with an audience that was very good for Friday. Prof. F. G. Peabody was the first speaker. He spoke particularly of the work of the Law and Order League in Cambridge. He dwelt on the need of unity in all reforms and of united forces against common enemies. The need was felt in Cambridge, and finally a league was formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans...
...great pity that the college is so poor that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward...
...freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing at the games through consciousness of their inability to carry away the prizes. The senselessness of both these courses of reluctance to compete has been too often pointed out, to need further comment...
...then raise up the college papers, let us give them the aid they need, and in their success recognize the proportionate success of our university...