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...forbidding its students to take part in inter-collegiate athletics for the future the Amherst faculty has passed resolutions "deploring the present demoralizing tendency of inter-collegiate athletic games, expressing the conviction that the cost of these games in time, money and energy expended brings no compensating advantage, and decreeing that the college shall cease to take part in them, whenever the present engagements have been fulfilled, or after the close of the present collegiate year." The resolutions also express their cordial approval of games and athletic contests which take place on the students' home grounds...
...number of the members of the sophomore class at Bowdoin have left town to await developments. At the morning prayers at the chapel, Sunday morning, there were present but eight members of the class, the rest voluntarily absenting themselves. They refuse to attend recitations or college exercises, having agreed to the same. President Chamberlain has arrived in Brunswick, and has the affair in consideration...
...present year is one of experiment in the matter of college athletics. First, our own faculty came out with its plan of reform and was partially followed by a number of other colleges. And now Amherst brings forward another plan-that of entire prohibition from inter-collegiate sports, which may be called either bolder or more timid than our own, according to the way in which one chooses to look at it. The plan adopted is more in accordance with the traditions of Amherst than it would be of any of the larger colleges, and we feel positive that...
...Yale alumni of Boston and its vicinity will have their annual dinner at Young's Hotel on the evening of Monday, Feb 12. The Hon. Levi C. Wade will preside. President Porter and Professor Cyrus Northrop have accepted invitations to be present. Arrangements are in progress, contemplating the largest gathering of Yale men, and the most pleasant one that has ever been had in Boston...
...number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to the present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect...