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...books of the recent examination in English 6 are being read before the class by the instructor...
...filled with this spirit, students are much more approachable than they ordinarily are and often yield to instincts which, were it not for the infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past and that the spirit of which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions for the interests they represent...
...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 four or five millions to the same college, are recent cases in point. Another remarkable instance of the same sort is the recent distribution by will of some hundreds of thousands...
...value of prize essays for the cause of science and higher literature would form an interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there are such, however...
...formal renunciation of anti-secret society principles by the Delta Upsilon fraternity at the convention with the chapter at Brown University, the more recent unconditional repeal of the anti-fraternity laws by the authorities of Vanderbilt University, and the radical change in policy announced in the last number of the Occident, of the University of California, until now a rabid anti-fraternity organ, are significant indications of the general breaking up of the hostile spirit that prevailed against college secret societies in many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part...