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...graduates connected with the musical interests of the University to form a chorus of ten or fifteen men to go abroad this summer. The plan has received the provisional approbation of the Faculty, and the initial steps toward carrying out the idea will be taken at once. The object of the trip is primarily to secure for the men taken the exceptional musical and social advantages offered by such a trip. The chorus will give concerts, but merely for the purpose of paying expenses, as the trip is not to be in any sense a business venture...
...meet this strain the boy must in some way be prepared; the school and the college must co-operate to lessen the violence of the transition. The main object of both school and college is the same-to establish character and to make that character more efficient through knowledge and mental discipline. The transition, then, should be merely the continuation in a wider field of a gradual growth already well started, There should be continuity of steadying, stimulating influences. At present, the only continuous influence of much force is athletics; but athletics, however open to criticisms for over-prominence...
...anti-imperialistic league has been formed by Harvard law students, whose object is to spread anti-imperialistic principles. The league has affiliated itself with the New England league, whose platform is essentially the same as that of the Harvard organization. C. W. Ford 2L. has been chosen president...
...unusual surprise to me to learn that at the last meeting of the Directors of the Randall Dining Association the steward's salary was increased 60 per cent. That the association has not been successful in accomplishing its primary object is the sentiment expressed by many members. The prices of various articles of food are even higher than were those of the parent society, the Eoxcroft Club, and in spite of this fact it is rumored that the association has not been earning its expenses...
Professor de Sumichrast says: "The war, in my opinion, was deliberately brought about by the Transvaal government which, ever since the retrocession, entered upon a policy having for its object the ultimate exclusion of the British from the whole of South Africa. The interview between Reitz and Schreiner, the brother of the present premier of Cape Colony, at the time of the establishing of the Afrikander Bund, proves that war with England was then contemplated and being prepared for. The recent statement, publicly made, by Dr. Levds, the Hollander agent of the Transvaal, that large quantities of ammunition had been...