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...years ago in boating. The success of their course is shown by the greatly increased interest in rowing in both colleges and by the enormous crowd which yearly assembles at New London. When Amherst or Dartmouth can produce nines which have a respectable chance of winning the pennant their place in the league should be secure; but at present they only affect the race for the championship by winning now and then, through some lucky chance, a game from nines whose superiority is easily proved. Williams, we hear, desires a place in the league; Trinity will come next, and before...
...Study of the English Bible in its Literary and Secular Aspect, and the due place of such study in a system of Liberal Education. Professor Bowen. Sever...
...notice. But this unanimous expression of the students' desire for one more play-day to be added to their Thanksgiving recess, was in no wise slighted and will be considered and acted upon in due time. These few facts might well be stated here. In the first place, the appointment of vacations, their lengthening and shortening, is made by the corporation; secondly, the vacations, which have hitherto been satisfactory, are appointed in the statutes, and lastly, the college faculty is utterly powerless in the matter and can only recommend changes of any such nature to the corporation. Next Monday evening...
...price of tuition for the first few years of the enterprise has been placed rather high (ranging from $75 to $200) in order that the number of students might be kept down, so that the classes might not become unwieldly. "It is not easy to see how the prices can be reduced until there is a sufficient endowment to place the instruction of women in Cambridge on the same basis with men. It is, of course, desirable that women should not be obliged to pay more for the same instruction than men pay, though it may still remain the case...
About seventy-five spectators, for the most part students from the Institute of Technology, witnessed the game of foot-ball which took place at the South End grounds Saturday between the Techs. and a picked team which could hardly be said to be composed of Harvard graduates. The day was damp and drizzly, and a dense fog hung over the field, at times almost obscuring the players from sight. Play began at 4 o'clock, Harvard having the kick...