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Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday noon at the funeral of the late Dr. Peabody. As the casket was borne in, preceded by the pallbearers, the audience rose like one, and stood till it was placed beneath the pulpit. After the Reverend Edward H. Hall had read passages from the scripture and offered prayer, Professor F. G. Peabody spoke upon the life of the dead preacher...
...corporation has not succeeded through it in averting the need of a second dining hall. At present there are two hundred men on the waiting list, a state of affairs entirely without precedence for this time of the year; this, too, with the general tables crowded to their utmost. If, then, the college is to furnish boarding accommodations to the students, it cannot fail to see that another dining hall is an imperative necessity...
Twenty-seven men are practising for the first baseball nine at the University of Chicago. A space for practising on grounders has been left in the gymnasium unfloored. Stagg bats down grounders to the candidates in succession. The players are taught the utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space...
...utmost freedom is allowed the students. They may elect what lectures they please, and may attend those lectures when they please. There are no examinations till the very close of the university course. Of course, this relaxation, following upon the grinding work in the gymnasium, has some evil effects for a time, the men let their work go to a great extent, out it is not long before they settle down again to serious study...
...sense, to given men an object for training and so to bring a large number of men into a way of getting good, healthful exercise. Mr. Lathrop is a tireless trainer, who can be relied upon to keep men in the best possible condition and to develop to the utmost whatever latent powers one may have for making a successful track athlete...