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...matter was to have been brought up before the Brown faculty last week, but owing to press of other business it was deferred until Tuesday evening, when the faculty had a free discussion of the resolutions. While agreeing with the general tone of the paper, as intended to elevate athletics, they did not approve of several particulars, especially restrictions in regard to playing professional nines. They agreed with the resolve to do away with professional trainers. It is thought at Brown that the resolutions would practically kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason...
...early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail until further information of their aim and scope shall be made public...
...effort is being made through the columns of the press to celebrate the coming birthday of Washington, by the donation of a fund to be raised by voluntary subscriptions to the Washington and Lee University. A few years ago a number of representative men, who were interested in higher education, formed a "Centennial Organization for the Better Endowment of Washington and Lee University." The object of this organization was to raise a fund of a million dollars to endow this leading university of the South. Of this sum, about $400,000 has been raised, one half being received from citizens...
Among the American contributors to the 17th volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now in press, will be Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and J. K. Lord, of Dartmouth; Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, and Mr. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation...
This is peculiarly the period of munificent generosity in public donations and particularly of gifts for educational purposes. Large endowments of new or long established institutions by the wealthy are of almost every day occurrence. A gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some...