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...placed. The work is under the personal supervision of the founder, who devotes his entire time and attention to the welfare of the college. It is his intention to found this college after the method of the old European universities, although it will be modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control of the funds, choice of instructors, etc. They will assist the founder in carrying out the plans already conceived by him, but will be free to perfect plans of their own. Many applications...
...part already built was to be but one third of one side of the proposed building. This would make each side three-eights of a mile in length. To conceive the plan, imagine a building the depth of Sever built in the form of a square, each side of which was three-eighths of a mile in length. The area around the outside would be a mile and a half...
There is little possibility, however, that this plan will be carried out. Already a gymnasium and a physical laboratory have been built in what would have been the quadrangle in the gigantic scheme had been carried...
...avoided. It is also too evident to need statement that a man who has been in college two or three years has a weightier claim to getting into a college building than the man who just comes here. It would be a very simple matter to arrange a plan by which preference would be given to seniority in college standing, so that the bursar's hat would become less like the well into which like the daughters of Danae, a man pours his lot as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors without ever seeing the accomplishment of his wish...
...heavy men from whom to select the crew; but aside from this, rowing is one of the best forms of exercise, and even those who do not intend to make a specialty of athletics will find themselves well repaid for the time spent in training. It is an excellent plan to get into the habit of steady, systematic gymnasium work, such as is required of the candidates, and every man will feel the benefit of this winter's work through the remainder of his college life. The complaint is often made that men will not train for any team unless...