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...summer term began at Williams last Friday. The Seniors have three studies, Natural Theology, Logic, and Astronomy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...BYRON D. HALSTED, of the Bussey Institution, will accompany the Cornell aquatic summer school in the capacity of botanist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...catalogue alludes to the many advantages in the way of art-schools, music-schools, preparatory department, etc., which the college affords, but lays peculiar stress on the location. Springfield, Missouri, the seat of this Institution of Learning, is celebrated, we are told, for its salubrious climate. The heats of summer are there less intense than in many places farther north, while this elysium is yet far enough south to escape the "rigors of northern winters." "At the same time the clear, dry air, entirely free from the malaria which infects so many parts of the West and Southwest, acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRURY COLLEGE. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...Summer Meeting will take place at Beacon Park, on Saturday, May 12, at 3 P. M., unless the weather prevents. The meeting will be governed by the same rules as last year's. The list of Events includes: One Mile Run, One-Mile Walk, Running High Jump, 100-Yards Dash, Half-Mile Run, Running Long Jump, Three-Mile Run, 120-Yards Hurdle-Race, Quarter-Mile Run, and Three-Legged Race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. SUMMER MEETING. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...brain is naturally freshest and clearest, and it is a time also when there are none of the distractions of athletics or entertainment which accompany the afternoon and evening hours. Again, considered from the sluggard's standpoint, the change is not a serious one. Seven o'clock in summer is not as early as eight in winter, and it is also much the cooler and pleasanter time for study, - a valuable consideration in view of the hot summer days. But this morning hour cannot be secured without a change in the breakfast and chapel hours, since studying before breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »