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...School crew decided yesterday to give up rowing, as there were not enough...
...School tug-of-war team is making arrangements to pull the Union Gymnasium team...
...university is located at Lexington, Va., in the center of large coal fields and in the neighborhood of extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly fitting that his birthday should be made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington was in Philadelphia, in 1796, as president...
...gratifying to see that the broad policy inaugurated at Harvard some years ago and the constant fostering and enlargement of the elective system, with its wider range and greater attractions, are bearing such good fruit. That this broad policy should win over a large school, formerly averse to the simple mention of the word Harvard, and induce the instructors to change to more liberal methods of instruction augurs well for the popular hold which the Harvard elective system is acquiring among students in general...
...Phillipian comments thus: -"Perhaps nothing is more worthy of our attention as a school at present than the steady change of sentiment that has set in within the last few years in favor of Harvard as opposed to Yale. We have always been known as a Yale school; but a Harvard element had developed lately which threatens to overturn the ancient order of things and place us in the category of Harvard schools. A few years ago almost all our graduates went to Yale. As late as '80, only three or four went to Harvard, with probably twenty or twenty...