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...college presidents are a much rarer class of men than is commonly supposed. There are now sixteen colleges in the country that are without presidents, and yet almost every day one reads that a new institution has been founded by some millionaire, who wishes in some way to perpetuate his fame and influence among educated men. The Stanford University, with its endowment of $3,500,000, will soon be a competitor for still another president, and there is no knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth...
...management of the club have fitted up handsome rooms on Brattle Street, near the square, and the sixteen members doubtless make the best use of these advantages...
...OUTING" FOR JULY. The advance sheets of the July number of this journal give promise of unusual interest to college men, and especially to all interested in the history of rowing at Harvard. The first sixteen pages of the magazine are devoted to an article upon the Harvard-Yale university races, and the races of the inter-collegiate rowing association. The article is elaborately illustrated, and contains a complete record of the races, from the victory of the Harvard crew in the old One ida over the Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale...
...Yale freshmen feel aggrieved because they have sixteen hours perweek of prescribed work. A petition has been drawn up, and will be presented, asking the faculty to excuse the class from one recitation per week...
...ears in love with a young girl whom he calls "la belle Irlandaise." "I am exceedingly lucky," he exclaims joyfully, "to have escaped the insensible Miss B. for now I have seen the finest creature that ever was formed, la belle Irlandaise. Figure to yourself a young lady just sixteen, formed like a Grecian nymph, with the sweetest countenance, full of sensibility, accomplished, with a Dublin education-her father with an estate of L1000 a year, and above L10,000 in ready money. From morning till night, I admire the charming Mary Anne. Upon my honor I was never...