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...Cognomen rather neat...
...need some new game here to rouse the flagging interest in Athletics. The interest in foot-ball has visibly waned, and base-ball is not much better. Lacrosse is superior to foot-ball as a game, inasmuch as there are no long delays from fouls, and as skill rather than brute force is necessary in order to play well. The popularity it has met with wherever it has been introduced...
...they went, and I wondered when the catastrophe would come. Finally, they returned to the same seats; Miss A. still on the same theme, and R. rather bored, but with a look...
UNDER the title of "England's Great University," Mr. M. D. Conway gives a very interesting account in the December Harper's of Oxford as it is at the present day. As the usual ideas about the English universities are rather vague on this side of the water, not to say incorrect, we give a short summary of the article...
...professors of the university, not being officers of the colleges, generally reside in detached houses. Their pay is rather less than that of our own professors. The Oxford tutor is usually an accomplished scholar who has himself passed through the university course. He is the familiar friend of the young men, often entertained by them at their social gatherings, and entertaining them in return. His care of his pupil is not limited to official hours, but is often special...