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...Stafford Northcote was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh, over Mr. Otto C. Trevelyan, the author of the Life of Macaulay, and Professor Blackie. This choice of the students is much condemned, as Sir S. Northcote has shown no proofs, during his long career, of striking intellectual power...
...rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale has gone all the way to Cambridge." We know that the management of our freshman team is doing all in its power to arrange this game and is as anxious as Yale that the game should be played as soon as possible. The objection which the News urges as to the time is trifling, as very few freshmen would be deterred from witnessing the game on account of the so-called Thanksgiving...
benches? I think even St Paul himself would be discouraged under such circumstances. Let the officers and members of this society be loyal to their church and earnest in their endeavor to make the society a power in the university, and not a low another preacher to be disheartened by coming here to find a mere handful of men to meet...
...good many men have been summoned recently on account of cuts taken last year. This seems quite a useless thing. If the records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what...
...news that they may be possessed of, is of interest to our readers and will be thankfully received. We have a box in a well known position, which is for voluntary contributions, and we wish to call upon the university to give us all the aid in their power by making use of this box. We specially desire items of news about the professional schools of the university...