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...recent meeting of the Columbia Boat Club it was announced "that in reply to the letter of the Harvard graduates concerning the difficulty between the colleges, the directors' committee had instructed Mr. R. C. Cornell on their behalf to testify to the Harvard gentlemen the appreciation of their generous conduct felt by Columbia men, and to reciprocate the wish that the old mutual good feeling between the colleges be maintained." Mr. A. L. Simonds, '72, is president of the club for the ensuing year; J. K. Bangs, '83, secretary, and R. H. Muller captain...
...recent examination for the degree of master of arts in the University of London there were two hundred and thirty-seven candidates altogether, and of these twenty-two were women. Of the women sixteen were successful, or about seventy-three per cent; while forty-two per cent of the men passed. Only twenty-seven per cent of the men were placed in the first division, but sixty-eight per cent of the women reached that rank. That is to say, while every woman graduating but one was in the first division, only one man in three was so placed...
...Dryden's Virgil done into Lat in by one Maro" was put up at a recent English auction...
...doubt that a very considerable movement of "reform" is beginning to make itself felt among our American colleges in the matter of athletic sports. Not only among educators and college men has the question been attracting much attention during the past few years, but since President Eliot's recent action in the matter the general press and the public have begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think...
...alumni of Trinity College, in a recent meeting at New York, voted that a man be sent through the country soliciting contributions for a president's salary fund, and that the salary of the president be fixed at $10,000 a year. Meanwhile the antique story concerning President Eliot and the cook of the Parker House still maintains its vogue - too largely based on truth. And Harvard does not blush...