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...Robinson will probably retain his professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy as well as the Elton professorship of Natural Theology. John L. Lincoln, professor of Latin language and literature, is spoken of as a temporary holder of the presidency, but no one has as yet been decided on to fill the place permanently. Prof. Elisha Benjamin Andrews who left the professorship of history and political economy last year to go to Cornell, is one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated...
...spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...have spoken before, and we take this opportunity to speak again, of the false statements which have appeared in many papers regarding the records of championships in the foot-ball league. The errors have come largely from ungrounded claims made in the Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been...
...have spoken twice before of the Junior class dinner which takes place next Tuesday evening, and it seems necessary to refer to the subject again. Ninety certainly is apathetic, or thinks that a class dinner is not at all desirable. Today is the last day to sign for the dinner, for the book will be taken away from Leavitts this evening. All who intend to be present must sign today. The Junior class dinners have always been one of the pleasantest events in a class history, occasions of good fellowship, and abundant class spirit. It would be a very great...
Hunt, the Yale outfielder, is spoken of favorably in connection with the New Haven professional nine, if one is formed in that city...