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...representative to attend the coming tercentenary celebration of the University of Edinburgh. A graduate of the college and still holding a professorship, on leave, at Harvard, Mr. Lowell thoroughly represents the best phase of Harvard culture, and the university may feel assured that its reputation abroad can be put heightened by its possessing such a representative...
...meeting held in New York, on February 1, the representatives of the various colleges drew up the following set of resolutions. It only remains for the different colleges to ratify them to put them in force...
...cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...heretofore, to live where they please. They are to pay ten rubles per month for board and lodging, and be at home before 9 o'clock in the evening, under penalty of exclusion from the medical course. Many of the ladies protested at first against this apparent restriction put upon their liberty, but eventually moved into their new official quarters. [St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Times...
...masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder in public, no matter how confident any one of their number may be as to the shapeliness of her ankles, and have agreed that in case they cannot put out a fire in a ladylike way they will scream for the police, and select eligible officers with whom to faint away...