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...expected by visitors. As regards prizes, although the financial success of the day will, in great measure, determine their value, yet they will, in any case, surpass in quality and workmanship anything of the kind presented outside the field of college athletics. The Committee intend to award solid gold badges to First and Second places, and in every case the prize alone will be well worth the contest. The entry-book is now ready, and in the hands of Mr. H. L. GEYELIN, of the University of Pennsylvania, and already the names of prominent athletes appear on his lists...
...certain branches, his matriculation may, with the consent of the Faculty, be deferred for a reasonable time. Special students are admitted on showing their ability to make a good use of the advantages which the University offers. Among the requirements are the following, not necessary at Harvard; in mathematics, solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry; in Latin, one book of Livy and two books of Horace; in Greek, one play of Euripides. French and German may be offered instead of Greek. In the languages the examinations aim to find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge of these...
LAST June we entertained an angel unawares. He came from the "University of Wisconsin," and he writes about us to the University Press as follows: "I was struck, as every visitor must be, with the solid intellectual calibre of the professors, but I suppose the summer sunshine and the approaching close of the year's work was having its inevitable effect on the students; certain it is, the recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them...
...soul which has studied the causes of the incarnation, under the sweet reasonableness of the Entretiens of Malebranche, or has rejoiced in the prize clock-system of Leibnitz, - thus, I say, does the soul under these unhappy conditions pant for something more tangible, more solid, than the aforesaid sweet confections, the hermetically sealed thoughts of two centuries...
...society men, to be sure, would have no voice in the nominations, but in the elections their votes would be as powerful as any; and if they cast a solid vote they would make so formidable an opposition that the nominating bodies would have to regard their opinion. Rampant democrats may cry out that this is unfair, but they should remember that the societies differ widely in their scope, and that any student whose mind and whose manners fit him for admission to any one of them can obtain it by the exercise of a little tact...