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Civil Service Reform is said to have triumphed in the recent decisions made by the Milwaukee board of education in regard to the tenure of office of teachers. The superintendent is trying to make arrangements whereby length of service and continued faithfulness may have some substantial acknowledgment...
...novelty and so anxious to "give everything a fair show," that it seemed for a while as if this feeble fancy would be supplied with enough vitality to force for itself a position from which it would have been difficult, or even impossible to remove it. But the recent sensible and far-sighted conduct of many institutions of learning, and Harvard is among them, in refusing to open its doors to women, has convinced us that for some years, at least, co-education will be an unrealized dream, as far as some colleges are concerned...
...Yale papers comment favorably on the recent playing of our freshman nine...
...view of the approaching college contests at the Polo Grounds the following records made in the recent Columbia College games at Mott Haven may be of interest: Running high jump - Jenkins, 5 ft. 3 1/2 in. 100 yards dash - Derickson, '85, 10 3/4 s. Mile walk - Taylor, '84, 9m. 14 3.5s. Throwing the hammer (15 lbs.) - Porter, '83, 89 ft. 5 in. Half-mile run - Coward. L. S., 2m. 12 3/4 s. Running broad jump - Jenkins, '84, 20 ft. 3 in. Mile run - Taylor, '84, 5m. 37 1.5 s. 440 yards dash - Jenkins, '84, 59 3-5 s. Putting...
...beauties of paternal college government were well illustrated by the recent escapade of the president and two professors of the University of Minnesota with a wild and wilful student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore...