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...motion was made that $2,000 of the amount be placed with a trust company. This was lost. A motion was then carried that the money be distributed among the colleges, but only those colleges which sent competitors to the games a year ago to receive a share. An amendment by Mr. Lee that the division be on a basis of the number of men entered by the colleges in the games was lost. It was also moved and carried that no college should receive a share until its back dues were paid...
...fact that the Boat Club, in whose hands the matter was left, has taken no action. What their exact stand on the question is seems uncertain-so uncertain as to raise a doubt whether they understand exactly how the case is. Perhaps the executive officers of the Boat Club share, with many others in college, the opinion that an instructor in rowing must necessarily be the coach of the 'varsity crew. If such is their understanding, we do not wonder at their inaction; for it seems doubtful whether a man competent to coach the 'varsity can be found to fill...
Architecture also receives its due share of attention. An illustrated article is devoted to the Renaissance castles in Touraine, sculptured and turreted and haunted with memories of Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Bretagne, etc. Then a wide step across the Atlantic takes one to far-off Milwaukee where the "Wes tern Mansion" of the late Emil Schandein furnishes the subject for a description by George H. Yenowine. The house is very large, architecturally German renaissance and is considered one of the sights of the "blonde city of the lakes...
...Messrs. Howe and Co. of London, found on a book stall an American book of anonymous verses, which they reprinted under the title 'Pirated Poems.' The English reprint has run into the twelfth thousand, and the publishers express a desire to become acquainted with the author and to share with him the profits arising from the sale of the book. The poems are witty, philosophical, graceful, and altogether delightful. We congratulate the Messrs. Howe and Co. upon their good taste," continues the Sun, "and are pleased to be able to inform them that the author is Mr. Edward S. Martin...
...investigation of the will of the late Daniel B. Fayerweather who died last month, it was found that out of the $2,225.000 which he left, $2,100.000 were bequeathed to various colleges in the United States. Twenty colleges have received a share of Mr. Fayerweather's bounty, the various colleges receiving from $50.000 to $300,000 each. Six of the smaller colleges have received $50,000; eleven. including Bowdoin, Amherst, Wesleyan and Dartmouth, have been left $100.000; Columbia and Cornell have each received $200.000; and Yale heads the list with $300,000, Harvard and Prince...