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There has been a great deal of energy shown in the tug-of-war teams among the classes. This energy has resulted in arousing the enthusiasm of the graduates. Therefore, after great persuasion, certain members of the Law and Medical Schools have decided to test their respective merits. These men have given careful attention to strict training during the winter. The prizes will be in Bartlett's window during the coming week. The following-named compose the teams as at present selected: Law School - W. H. Cook, '80; J. S. How, '81; C. W. Andrews, '82; A. E. Lane...
...McCosh proposes to retire from the position of president of the college and to establish at Princeton a great School of Philosophy, including mental, moral and political science, with history...
...idea of giving an excellent technical education to many ambitions young men who had not the means to pursue a course at a regular college. There is therefore no tuition expense, and admission is granted to a limited number of students from Pennsylvania who have had a high school education. The original bequest was $500,000, which was largely increased at the death of Mr. Packer, and is now further increased by his son's will. The course at Lehigh is technical, mainly engineering, civil, mining and electrical, and is so rigorous that heretofore but few men have graduated...
...21/2 miles daily, and from 15 minutes to half an hour at the rate of 42 strokes a minute. The men now at work are Louis K. Hull, '83, captain, 199 pounds; H. T. Folsom, '83, stroke, 174 pounds; F. W. Rogers, '83, 180 pounds; N. J. Guernsey, Law School, 186 pounds; W. H. Hyndman, '84, 192 pounds; H. R. Flanders, '85, 187 pounds; J. R. Parrott, '83, 198 pounds. This leaves seven of last year's crew, the missing man being Storrs, who last year pulled No. 7. Folsom, Guernsey and Rogers have pulled together four successive years. Parrott...
Some of the Boston critics are not at all pleased that Harvard should choose a New York painter, Wm. M. Chase, to make a likeness of Ex-President Hayes for Memorial Hall, and another, J. W. Alexander, to give the likeness of Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Medical School. Both portraits are subjected to violent criticism in a number of papers. The Journal thinks the Holmes portrait a judgment on the committee that could not find a better painter nearer home; and the Gazette is even more wrathful. "The muddiness, the ugliness, and the fantastic charlatanism of the picture...