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...writer in the Yale Literary Magazine discusses the American university of the future. "What the American university of the future is to be," he says, "must be decided within the next few decades. Two ideas are on trial, and one must stand and the other fall. Either Harvard must check her career of revolutionary innovation and even withdraw from some of the positions already taken, or else Yale must abandon her cautious conservatism and stand abreast of her venturesome rival. Meanwhile, there is no denying the fact that the bulk of undergraduate opinion at Yale favors Harvard on this question...
...examination of the alleged dynamite conspirators was resumed in London yesterday. Norman, one of the accused, turned informer, confessing on the stand that he joined a secret society in New York, the object of which was to free Ireland...
...noted, however, that if there was always plenty of talent at Eton, able editors were as scarce there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness of character as well as genius and judgment. Canning, Mackworth, Pread, and Gladstone all knew how to recruit a staff, keep it up to the best standard of work, and prevent its members from falling out. If he had not become a statesman he might have done wonders in conducting a London daily newspaper...
...same scale should be used in all other departments for marking forensics that is used in the English department, so that the rank list in forensics should not be headed by a number of hundreds obtained by men who are not good writers, and whose work would not stand comparison with that of men far below them on the rank list...
...perhaps be well to state that the expenses for repairs on the new grand stand will not be so heavy as seems, from statements made in the recent meeting of the Athletic Association, to be expected. In expending the large amount of $7000 on the grand stand, the committee reckoned on constructing it in the most permanent manner possible, and, moreover, by providing a temporary roof to protect the seats from the sun and storm, little or no more repairs will be needed for that portion of the structure. It would certainly be advisable to have a surplus fund...