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MOSES KING'S "HANDBOOK OF PROVIDENCE" seems to contain everything that can be said about that city, and should be called an encyclopaedia rather than a handbook. It devotes about a page to Brown University. The book is well printed, on very heavy paper, too heavy, however for the purposes of the publication...
There is a genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...been prepared by students labor under the disadvantage that they are not authoritative. Besides this they have the appearance of being compiled for the purpose of telling how many hour examinations each instructor requires, and as an attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide in the selection of courses. To remove the objection of meagreness of the elective pamphlet and as a supplement to it, the instructors in geology have been in the habit for the past few years of issuing a separate descriptive circular of the courses under...
...lacrosse game on Saturday at Cambridge makes Harvard our most dangerous rival. The victory of Harvard was rather unexpected. - [News...
President Eliot talked about the new Harvard that is and the Harvard that is to be in a rather interesting way at the recent semi-annual meeting of the Rhode Island Harvard Club at Providence. "It is quite evident," he said, "that whatever has been accomplished by even the highest seat of learning in this country, there is as yet no institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like...