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Brown.- In order to secure better singing in the chapel, the President arranged for a double quartette to sit in front and lead the singing. But as this plan promised to interfere with the congregational singing, the matter was dropped...
...reason why this plan should not meet with complete success. Members pay their fees directly to their officers, and are not allowed to use any boat before payment; the yearly fee will possibly be lowered still further, after the boats are entirely paid for, only enough money being required each year to pay running expenses. These are rent, taxes, and insurance on the house, a man's attendance, and repairs of the boats. Further a sinking fund is desirable, with which to buy new boats and oars...
...have received the official circular for February of Johns Hopkins University. As yet no settled plan for conducting the University has been decided upon, so that the present scheme may be materially modified in the announcement for next year, which is to be published hereafter. At present, students of three sorts are in attendance. On entering the University, if the student meets the requirements, he is at once admitted to full membership; but if he is not prepared in certain branches, his matriculation may, with the consent of the Faculty, be deferred for a reasonable time. Special students are admitted...
...learning, - names of men whose opinions as to whether Logic should be substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that caucus would probably vote. We may be thankful that a more rational plan has been adopted, and that the governors of the College are chosen by better qualified electors than the delegates to the General Court of Massachusetts...
...Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found (what we had not realized) increasing interest in theme-writing. They commend the plan of requiring each theme to be entirely rewritten, and can see no reason why themes should not be required of Freshmen and Seniors. They think that in Political Economy the field should be enlarged so as to include "a survey of the political arrangements under which men live, instead...