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...election of John Chipman Gray, A. M. L. L. B., as Royal professor of law, and in the appointment of Charles Herbert Williams, M. D., as instructor in Ophthalmology, and of Clarence Alonzo Cheever, B. A. S., M. D., as demonstrator of anatomy. Reports were made by the special committee on rhetoric and English literature; also by the committees to visit the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Lawrence scientific school and law school...
Exactly as to how the details should be arranged, should the plan be adopted, has not been fully settled, but one of the plans suggested provides that for each special sport, as base-ball, foot-ball, cricket, boating, athletics, etc., there should be, say, three advisers appointed who have practical knowledge, and who should have special charge of their particular branch. At stated times it is proposed that all these several boards should meet in one body, and, in connection with the Faculty Committee of athletics, consider all questions which may properly come before it, especially in regard to playing...
...writer turns his attention to the elective system, of which he apparently entertains an unfavorable opinion. He says: "General education is a question of the subjects to be taught, special education is a question of the person to be taught. The one depends on what is known, the range of present knowledge, which is not an individual matter; the other depends upon personal choice of a life specialty. A chief purpose of the general or college education is to afford that comprehensive view of the world of knowledge and activities which shall enable the student to make intelligent choice...
...Yale Glee Club, now on its Western trip, met with a sad accident on Saturday evening. While their special car was standing in the station in Charlestown, Indiana, waiting to convey them to Louisville, it was run into by the locomotive of the Cincinnati express train, The express was uninjured but the special car was destroyed. Otis Strong of Auburn, N. Y., had both legs crushed, and one of them at least will have to be amputated. W. W. Crehore of Cleveland, O., had one of his legs badly broken, and C. W. Cutler was severely cut about the head...
...rooms for cataloguing and administration. The book-room is constructed on what is know as the Harvard plan, and, besides ample provisions for enlargement, affords present accommodations for 108,000 volumes. In the second story are fitted up four rooms for the use of professors and students pursuing special branches of study. These connect directly with the upper story of the book-room, and thus the books likely to be most needed by specialists are made easily accessible. In two of the rooms will be carried on the work of the Seminaries of English Literature and Classical Philology, while...