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...late Harvard dinner President Eliot gave the key-note to the alumni of that university by dilating on the blessings of poverty to educational institutions. His plain meaning was that those who have their millions to spare should give them to Harvard, which has so large an endowment now that it cannot be harmed by receiving more, instead of to Yale, which is to be preserved by being kept poor. The question of the co-education of the sexes is attracting a good deal of attention just now. Old Columbia has been shaken to her foundations...
Lost - A square note book containing notes in freshman and sophomore Greek. Finder please leave it at 2 College House...
After an enthusiastically appreciative review of the proceedings at the dinner, especially of the remarks of Professors McVane and Palmer, the writer concludes: "And thus it is, as we started out among other things to note, that colleges are now spreading themselves - most prominently and distinctly among them, here in Chicago at least, the venerable but ever youthful school of learning at Cambridge...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...Dyke: New York. Fords, Howard & Hulburt." This books contains many suggestions in regard to reading which will be found especially valuable by college students and others who have to make constant use of books. The author's treatment of such topics as novel-reading, skipping, system in reading, note-books, memorizing, night-reading, exercise and choice of books is remarkably practical. The chapter on the use of the public library is perhaps the most useful of all in the book. Many of the author's suggestions are novel, but he is not dogmatic in his assertions and simply asks...