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...nearly a hundred years after the founding of the college, and as thus constituted was termed the 'immediate government.' Ordinary discipline had previously been in the hands of the tutors. The system of having representatives of some one of the various faculties in the corporation has continued until recent times, and has always been regarded as beneficial, as presenting the views of the teaching staff upon all questions of university policy...
...abolition of what has lately come to seem to many an unfortunate tendency towards undue specialization in our athletics may very possibly be one of the more important results of President Eliot's recent movement towards the reform of college athletics. Indeed, this may fairly be conjectured to be one of the chief aims of the movement. That college sports of late years have arisen to so high a degree of excellence and have developed teams, as well as individual athletes, of such exceptionally fine records, is surely a matter of congratulation to everybody. But that, at the same time...
Capt. Gen. Prendergrast of Havana has been directed to use $100.000 of the public funds for the relief of the sufferers by the recent cyclone on the coast of Cuba...
...Critic, in speaking in a recent issue of freedom of thought, says: "At the present time, the younger professors in all our great colleges are, with few exceptions, evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would...
PRINCETON, N. J., October 25, 1882. The sickness and recent death of the only daughter of Prof. Packard, together with the dangerous illness of Dr. Atwater, from which he is only just recovering, has made this month an anxious and a sad one for the members of the faculty...