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...report of President Eliot is none the less interesting because of its somewhat tardy appearance. The brief summary which we print in our columns this morning will serve to give a general impression of the nature of its contents. The report is, on the whole, of a gratifying nature, showing, as it does, an increase in the number of the students in almost all the departments of the University. In a later issue we shall give brief summaries of the reports of the treasurer of the University, and of the Deans of the several professional schools...
...magnificent overture received an interpretation quite worthy of it. In spite of a certain lack in volume, and force on account of the somewhat reduced size of the orchestra, the performance was characterized by a great breadth and largeness of conception. Mr. Gericke has done no better work since he has taken charge of the orchestra...
...while the spectators present swelled the number of those on the range to 35, or more. The scores, on an average, showed a decided improvement over the former work of the club, especially in the double-bird match, though the figures in this match were kept down somewhat by a stiff breeze from the southwest. Owing to the large number of entries in the regular matches, it was found necessary to omit the customary "scrub-team" match. The summary of the afternoon's work is as below...
...will be somewhat interesting to compare the rules that the colleges of Princeton and Yale will play foot ball under, in the coming season...
...explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream...