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...recent election of a Memorial director from the Scientific School, only four men voted; but judging from the fact that there were seven names on the list of candidates, we can fairly presume that there are at least seven scientific men in the hall. Supposing, then, that there are but seven scientific men in the hall, it seems unfair that they should be entitled to a director while the usual ratio is one director for seventy-five men. We should imagine that some plan could be devised by which these men could vote with the college classes and thus bring...
...recent address before the New York Harvard Club, President Eliot remarked that the clerical profession had been "deeply injured by beneficial endowments," and that although this profession had been more generously treated in the way of pecuniary aid than any other, in it is "the greatest dearth of great...
...Oxford, encouraged by the success of the recent presentation of the "Ajax," they are planning to produce the "Birds" of Aristophanes next year...
...Grecian and Roman systems and ideas of physical development, said Dr. Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change...
Word comes from Amherst that there is a strong chance of the recent vote of the faculty, in regard to inter-collegiate sports, being rescinded. The college world cannot but be pleased with the news. The carrying out of such a scheme, as that proposed by the Amherst faculty, could hardly have any other result than the total destruction of all athletic sports in the college...