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...part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned. Any person can now come to college and avail himself of all the privileges of a regular student without being obliged to take the required course. The only thing such a man must forego is the degree...
...tenure of land; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy; and C. P. Parker instructor in Greek and Latin for the current academic year. The board voted that it is not at present expedient to consent to the vote of the president and fellows to assign certain scholarships to special students...
...increase of special students, and their changed status under the laws of the college, is noted. The passage of most interest in the report perhaps is concerning the recent move toward the regulation of college athletics. Through the appointment of a standing committee of three the faculty has for the first time a direct responsibility for the character and extent of our athletics. This has resulted in a set of regulations by this committee. "The influence of the committee has been successfully used to reduce the number of match games of ball and to confine them to Saturdays...
...proceeds of the Hastings bequest. The attention of the friends and supporters of the university should now be turned to the increase of the quick capital, or invested funds, and especially of unrestricted funds and of funds devoted to such comprehensive purposes as salaries, retiring allowances, scholarships for undergraduates, special students, graduates, or professional students, administration and service in the gymnasium, chapel, library, or dining hall, and the maintenance of the several scientific laboratories. There is a variety of objects, both large and small, as great as the diversity of intellectual interests which the university represents. Among large objects...
...large audience listened to Prof. Cooke's interesting lecture on "Egyptian Antiquities" last evening. The new electric light showed the views to much better advantage than in previous lectures. The special subject was the Necropolis of Thebes, and its tombs and temples were graphically illustrated...