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...university court. Apart from these dignified bodies each university has for chief individual officers a chancellor, representing the higher powers, a vice chancellor, appointed by the chancellor, and a rector elected by the matriculated students. The latter is an honorary office, and is usually conferred on some distinguished non-resident, sometimes on account of his scholarly eminence, but more frequently on political grounds. The voting for lord rector is generally taken to be a fair indication of the party bias of the students, who, in turn, are looked upon as fairly representative young men. The universities confer degrees that correspond...
...peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon the alarming proportion of non-swimmers and upon the desirability of giving some instruction in this useful accomplishment. The question has been discussed time and again here at Harvard. At regular intervals the college press presents its time-worn article upon the subject, each time without the least effect. In view of the repeated failures...
...Non-sectarian...
...interest: "The students of Bowdoin College have voted to accept a proposition of the faculty, which, to a large extent, places in the hands of the students the discipline of the men. A jury, composed of one representative from each class, one from each intercollegiate society, and one from non-society students, is to be the tribunal which offenders will face. The president of the college is to bear to the jury the relation substantially of a judge in court, ruling upon questions of jurisdiction and the validity of decisions. Penalties are to be awarded by the president. A verdict...
...from the opposing class, the employed, the office-holders of the future. The interest of the unemployed must be awakened before the Union can hope to do really valuable work. But how can the Union here help men to form good opinions and how excite an interest in the non-working class? It would do much we think in imitating the example of the Cambridge Union. Here the conditions are much the same as at Harvard, yet the Union thrives there. In the first place it is a regular club and owns a club house. This club house...