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...long been a cherished scheme of the athletic authorities of the college to follow the lead of Harvard in reducing the scope of her athletics to inter-collegiate contests on college grounds. Even the Cambridge University, more favorably situated geographically, and less stinted in financial resources, has found it difficult to adhere strictly to her avowed purpose, and it is hardly to be expected that Dartmouth in her far corner of the earth should be more fortunate. Yet progress is being made toward this ultimate end. Already our football interests are substantially upon this basis, and the track team fails...
...Gulliver Gr., the second speaker, said that twelve hundred students were present at the Detroit convention and that three hundred different colleges were represented. The immense scope of the movement may be seen from the fact that thirty-eight denominations were represented by the delegates...
...transactions was very small. Today it does a business of over a hundred thousand dollars a year; it has found it necessary to enlarge its quarters again and again until it occupies a large part of Dane Hall and has also taken rooms elsewhere; and it has widened its scope of business so as to include not only books but furniture, men's furnishings, tailoring, and, lately, shoe-repairing. It is today one of the leading cooperative stores of any description in this country, and is, beyond question, the foremost among college cooperative societies. Its nearest rival is the society...
During the last year a very important addition has been made to the observatory in the new Bruce telescope. This telescope is of remarkable size, power and scope, and does the work of about twenty other telescopes...
...knows, even by sight, all the men in his class, and most men would find it difficult to connect faces with half the names by which, according to the catalogue, their classmates are called. Then, too, the policy of the University now gives to each student full scope in developing his special abilities or tastes. A lively and initiatory interest in their work has been awakened in the students; they enter into the University life with more single and intense purpose, they multiply organizations to supplement their particular interests, they find themselves associated constantly, not with men of the same...