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...club their shells and barges as they are through with them. The writer shows with a few figures that, by his plan, the expenses of the crew, the rent of both boat-houses, and the salary of a janitor could be paid, and leave a balance of over one thousand dollars to spend annually on repairs and new boats. These are the main features of his plan, though his whole article deserves a careful perusal...
...thousand dollars have just been given to President Porter, of Union College, to be spent in the completion of Alumni and Memorial Hall...
...perfect order for training purposes. The dressing-rooms are being provided with lockers by the New York Athletic Club, and contain every convenience for contestants. The apparatus necessary for every contest is now ready at the track. Arrangements are now in progress for providing seats for three thousand spectators, and every convenience can be expected by visitors. As regards prizes, although the financial success of the day will, in great measure, determine their value, yet they will, in any case, surpass in quality and workmanship anything of the kind presented outside the field of college athletics. The Committee intend...
...President White has been making extensive purchases for the library in Florence, Rome, and Naples. Among these are the following: Three hundred illustrations of French Architecture, and one thousand relating to Italian Art of different periods; also a large number of the mural decorations of Pompeii; many French and German works on ancient cities, and a series of early printed missals and manuscripts; also many valuable works on the modern history of Italy. The above are to be given to the library by the President, and will reach their destination before Commencement...
When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...