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...conference between a faculty committee of six and invited students to the number of twenty-four on the subject of college athletics, Friday afternoon, resulted in an interesting and suggestive discussion of the question in its various aspects as suggested by the recent course of the faculty and the faculty committee on athletics and by President Eliot's recent report. The total attendance numbered about twenty-three; the list of students invited was as follows: From '84, T. J. Coolidge, Fenn, Goodwin, LeMoyne, Lovering and Nash. '85, Atkinson, Baldwin, Carpenter, Goodale, Storrow and J. E. Thayer. '86, Adams, Barnes, Cary...
...Theodore Vetter of Germany delivered a lecture on Education in Russia, on Thursday evening in Sever 11. The lecturer, speaking from personal experience, displayed great knowledge of his subject and held the close attention of his audience to the end of his address. Dr. Vetter passed four years in Russia. He was first engaged as tutor to a young Russian nobleman but was afterwards connected with the Imperial University of Moscow and the Lyceum of Nicholas. He spoke in substance as follows. The children of the lower orders in Russia grow up in about the same manner as the children...
...that the faculty will through the committee give some definite idea of what its policy in the matter of college sports at present is or is likely to become in the future. As to this question at present the college is in the profoundest doubt. The passage on the subject in President Eliot's recent annual report is far from satisfactory as an expression of such policy. It is in many points vague and noncommttal, and can fairly in part be termed a special pleading. It criticizes without suggesting a remedy, unless by implication we take it to advocate...
...other, he is at liberty to say "I am tired," thereby ending the duel; and this is generally done, unless there was some personal reason for the duel. The nose is usually not protected, and is sometimes cut completely off. A good but rather exaggerated account of this subject can be found in "Mark Twain's Tramp Abroad." The regulations of the mensur above stated were given to me by a member of the Hannovera corps in Gottingen; Bismark was formely in this corps and fought more than thirty-five duels...
...learn that the great university of Berlin is preparing to add a department in dentistry to its other courses. In one subject at least Harvard has preceded what is perhaps the greatest University of Europe, for the dental school connected with this university has been established for several years. But dentistry is largely an American science, and that European institutions should follow the lead of those of America in adding instruction in this branch to their other professional branches is therefore only natural...