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...that the "back of the winter is broken." Therefore, although we shall have probably several more cold snaps before the spring really opens, the cold waves will not last long. There has been much discussion of the matter of flooding Holmes field for skating purposes. That the plan proposed is quite feasible, there is no doubt. The field is nearly, if not quite, level, and not more than an average depth of six inches of water would be needed to cover the whole available surface. This water would be furnished by the city at a low price - two cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1887 | See Source »

...general plan of having our own skating park close at hand is very attractive, but it is scarcely possible to put it into practice this winter, it is now so late in the season. Therefore let the directors of the H. A. A. and the officers of the Base-ball Association talk the matter over and see to it that proper arrangements be made before next winter for the sport. In the first place Holmes field should be fenced in on the west side as it is on the south, in order that the ice may be used by students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1887 | See Source »

...COWLES.It is useless to add anything to our editorial of yesterday. "We have not one of us, been a moment unfavorable to the new plan; it is the best thing for all of us. Congratulations brothers! Hurrah for the new league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton and Harvard | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...offering scholarships or presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could never, and should never, he says, seek to control the smaller college, for the independence of the relationship would be one of the greatest merits of the plan. Forty thousand dollars a year, he thinks, would be the cost of doing this, and furnishing yearly our graduate department with a strong working force of scholars; and ultimately resulting in "turning over to the colleges a large part of the teaching now done in our undergraduate department, and thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The February "Monthly." | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...plan in relation to attendance at recitations adopted by the faculty of Tufts College is as follows: Hereafter the faculty will receive no petitions offering excuse for absences. In making up the rank of students all absences from recitations will count zero, except in cases of prolonged absence occasioned by illness or other extraordinary cause, in which case such loss may be made up by private examinations. In other cases the rank of each student will be determined wholly by the work done at the regular recitations of his class. Any student who fails to attain a rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECITATIONS AT TUFTS. | 2/12/1887 | See Source »