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...lecture tonight by Mr. Walter H. Page should be largely attended. The subject is one with which every practical man should be acquainted, as the problem in regard to labor in the South and the manufacturing and social future of that portion of the country is to be one of the important questions of the coming years. Mr. Page is both a keen observer and an able lecturer, so that the subject cannot fail to be presented in an interesting form...
...arrangements of dormitories have excited of late years an interest formerly unknown. The older buildings at Harvard and Yale have suffered from the existence of defects which have been remedied as far as possible, although the perfect ventilation of recitation rooms remains in some of these structures an unsolved problem. But the newer buildings at these colleges and at Columbia embody the application of the best scientific knowledge to the securing of air, light, and satisfactory drainage. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...question of the use of the tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis has been a much debated one. The Tennis Association, to whom the college naturally looked for a solution of the problem, has incurred much blame through its apparent inactivity. This inactivity has, however, been due to the impossibility of reaching any satisfactory decision as to the disposal or use of the courts. Last year the executive committee of the association drew up a plan, which they laid before the corporation, requesting to be given authority to dispose of the ground devoted to tennis in accordance with the plan...
Arrangements have been made so that instead of having the street cars stop at the railroad crossing, the locomotive will be required to make a full stop 150 feet from each crossing, and send a man ahead to see that the gates are down. A happy solution of the problem...
...happened that the instruction given at these conferences coincided very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them...