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...consider one of our strongest departments, that of Natural Science. In the elective pamphlet there is not to be found mention of a single course in one of the grandest of our sciences, Astronomy. Turning to the catalogue under the head of "The Astronomical Observatory," we find this statement: "Any one properly qualified to pursue the study of practical astronomy may be admitted to the Observatory as a student." But what is meant by "properly qualified?" It goes on to say, "a degree of astronomical knowledge as is implied in a thoro' acquaintance with Herschel's 'Outlines of As tronomy...
...seems that our statement that the Theta Delta Chi society has no members except those printed in its list of officers in the Index, was a mistake. For reasons best known to itself, the society did not choose to insert its membership list. It has fifteen members...
...statement of some eminent divine runs to the effect that "College athletics lead invariably to drinking." Columbia must needs congratulate herself for being so singularly free (?) from dissipated young men. As there are practically no athletics here, and as studious proclivities naturally incite moral habits, we accordingly infer that the students of our university are absolutely uncontaminated by this pernicious practice.-Actu...
From the Yale News we learn that the enthusiastic supporters of the blue have organized a club for polo playing on roller skates. Coupled with this report comes the alarming statement that this new departure is made with a view of bringing one more championship to New Haven, for we are informed that a strong team has already been put in training, and that a challenge has been sent to the Harvard Polo Club. But this time, though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must...
...this issue our readers will find a statement of the present attitude of the Committee of Conference. That the gentlemen of the committee have the best interests of the students at heart, and are anxious to bring about closer relations between them and the faculty, we feel certain. But they seem to us to be needlessly timorous. Other colleges are already in advance of us in this matter of student co-operation, and that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here...