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...four. The salary affixed to each one of these is $500 a year. Formerly the custom of the college was to award the fellowships by competitive examination; hereafter they will be awarded by the President, at the advice of the University Council, "to those applicants who give evidence of special fitness to pursue courses of higher study and original investigation." All graduates of any college or scientific school are available candidates. The term of office will be one year, but the incumbents, upon recommendation of their professors, and a statement that they wish to continue their studies, may be repainted...
...students of the University on the ethical aspect of the modern social questions." One prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some definite form of Chartly-work, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some special phase of the Labor Question, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. It is the intention of the founder to encourage first-hand research into present social conditions, and he indicates, though he does not prescribe-such subjects as the following...
Five new prizes are offered, and twelve more endowed scholarships appear in the list, making the whole number ninety. The number of students enrolled this year is as follows: Fellows 8, Graduate students 93, Academic department 504, Scientific department 155. Special students 90-total 850. The first honor man of the present senior class Academic, is Samuel Grant Oliphant...
Friday evening-exhibition half mile steeple chase by Day; an attempt to lower the record for 600 yards by Wendell Baker, Harvard '86; the special mile run between Downs, H. A. A. Remington, M. A. C. and Dickinson, Col. A. C.; a game of Lacrosse between teams from the M. A. C., New York, Montreal, and Staten Island lacrosse clubs, and finally the foot ball game between...
...first of the series of Historical Monographs is a discussion of "The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function in the Government of the United States," by Mr. E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy. The monograph, the result of special research under the direction of Dr. Hart, opens with a sketch of the derivation of vetoes from the royal prerogative in England. It goes on to discuss vetoes in United States history, under the heads of vetoes affecting the form of government, the distribution of its powers, and their exercise. Each class is elaborately treated. The occasion of each...