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...number of students from the Institute of Technology start Monday on a five-days excursion to the principal manufacturing centres in New England. They will be accompanied by Prof. Whitaker and Mr. Beeching...
...waited patiently for the appearance of the October number of the Academica, but it contained nothing that could afford him a pretext for expelling the editors. He then issued a number of the University, which purported to be the official sheet, and provoked the editors of the Academica, who fell into the trap prepared for them, and published in the December number of the Academica certain comments on the administration of the university, as represented by Vickers. In a secret session of the faculty, without affording the editors the opportunity of a full and impartial defence, Vickers succeeded in having...
...overreached himself, and is having an unpleasant experience. This morning the Cincinnati Gazette said concerning Vickers: "Rebuked by the directors, unsupported by the faculty, disliked by undergraduates, dispised by the alumni, looked upon with aversion by the teachers of Woodward, Hughes and other preparatory schools, obnoxious to a large number of the patrons of the school, his hold on the rectorship is certainly feeble. Like Tantalus, he reached out after fruit which has constantly cluded his grasp. Like the Samian king, he left a cup untasted to pursue game he failed to secure, and has verified the proverb, 'There...
Oberlin pleads for voluntary prayers, on the ground of insufficient accommodations for the large number of students who attend...
...were received from the President. Pension estimates were asked for, and a bill introduced to remit the duty on New Testaments imported by the American company of revisers for free distribution among scholars and theolologians. In the Senate Senator Sherman spoke in defence of his refunding bill, and a number of nominations were received from the President...