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...measures for enforcing discipline among professors and presidents, and issued an announcement to the effect that they could not approve the conduct of those college officers who had impudently attempted to instruct students as to their duty in athletic matters. These and various other incidents that might be quoted, show that a spirit of rebellion is abroad among college faculties, and that unless the students are firm and inflexible their authority may be set at defiance by reckless and disorderly professors...
...McGill University, Montreal, medical students have carried their pranks into ruffianism. Professor Pennofold raised the standard of botany examinations and the students snow-balled him in the class-room till he was forced to leave. Thursday they refused to show their museum tickets, and broke open one of the professor's rooms, threatening violence and shaking their fists in his face. The faculty has taken the matter up and there will probably be a wholesale expulsion...
...Julian Hawthorne, Henry James, Charles Waldstein, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, John Burroughs, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Philip Bourke Marston, George W. Cable, Robert Grant, Austin Dobson, H. H., Frank Stockton, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Andrew Lang, and R. W. Gilder. The mere mention of these names is sufficient to show the interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like all Mr. James' work, clever. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's article...
...much progress as was expected has been made during the recess in the learning of the stroke. Although the crew have worked hard, they show scarcely any change from their condition before the vacation. [News...
...lave seen the nine play in their practice games so far, have criticised their play severely in one particular. They say that the base running is decidedly poor. Some of the men certainly do need to show a little more life in moving from one bag to another. In all the champion nines of last year, the men were conspicuous for their swift base running. More, the men were carefully coached while on bases, from the time they reached first until they had crossed the home plate again. No chance to gain a point was allowed to escape the notice...