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Beginning with this evening there will be only five more college conferences in the regular series for the rest of the year. These last five, moreover, seem to be of especial interest. Tonight Professor Goodwin, in having for his subject "Paul at Athens," will bring the thought of Greece into touch with the Christian gospel. Professor Palmer will apply the habit of philosophy to interpret the parables, and Professor Wright the instinct of the philologist to the speeches of Paul. It is difficult to see how our instructors could better accomplish true University work than by such means as these...
...part we are content to let the matter rest here. We think it can be fairly said that no sufficient desire for change has been manifested on the part either of the Alumni or of the community to make change imperative. And until that time the danger and uncertainty of an overturning of all the old methods must be paramount considerations...
...students this morning. Adelbert Shaw, the great, strong athlete of the freshman class, was drowned while rowing on the river Monday afternoon. The story of the accident is a very uncertain one, and can at best only be surmised. Shaw went down to the boat house with the rest of the crew Monday afternoon, and as the barge was full Captain Perkins decided to let him go out in a single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin, and Shaw, after rowing about for some...
...Pond, 173 lbs., does not swing straight, and is loose in all his motions; is apt to get behind the rest of the crew...
...rest of the number is taken up by two stories, an essay, and the editorial,- the usual verse being wanting. The first story, "Elsie's Paladin," is a fanciful tale of a boy and a girl, two playmates,-a half-fairy-story in which there is a touch of the weird and fantastic German folk-lore. The first page of the story reminds one of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand." While the scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind...