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...than any other college in the country, and, to effect this, they intend only to offer such instruction as does not usually come within the limits of an undergraduate's course. The chief object is, not to enable boys to forestall the regular work of a professional school in order that they may begin their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent and eager to learn, they hope to attract professors of the highest scholarship, who will...
...Convention was called to order at ten o'clock, in a parlor of the College House, Hartford, by Mr. Dana of Harvard, Vice-President of the Association. Nine colleges responded to the roll-call as follows...
...vote stood, Harvard five, Yale five. On the last Yale's candidate, C. H. Ferry, was elected. The article of the Constitution forbidding the use of professional trainers was then called to the attention of the Convention. On motion of Mr. Ferry, it was agreed that, in order to more easily distinguish the position of boats at the finish, each boat should carry its number on a wire gauze frame raised...
...will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership - in short, a shingle - might be issued with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope that we should receive an assurance of kindred feeling from a certain society in that college which is situated at New Haven...
...future the members will read at each meeting a comedy, the parts being assigned a week in advance. The committee has selected for the next meeting "Le Medecin malgre lui," and will continue to choose, in the broad field of French comedy, the most attractive pieces for reading. In order to have a larger number to choose from, the limit of membership will probably be extended to forty members...