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...lower of which will be converted into a stack, entirely fire-proof, which will accommodate 150,000 volumes. The upper story will be fitted up as a new reading room with more airy alcoves, better tables, and easy chairs. Between the present ceiling and the roof there is a vacant space of fifteen feet. This ceiling will be torn down, so that the new room will be at least as high as the old. The lighting, too, will be greatly improved, as the old ground glass will be taken out and larger panes of plate glass substituted. At night...
...repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase in the number who take active part in the various debates, but by the heightened esteem in which the debates themselves are generally held...
...usual March meeting of the Corporation was held here on Thursday. Several changes were made in the Faculty; among them Professor Edward G. Bourne '83 was elected to a new professorship of History in the academic department, and the University chair of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, made vacant by the death of Professor Whitney in June last, was filled by the appointment of Professor Edward W. Hopkins, now at Bryn Mawr...
...doctrine of the sacredness of the human arm or leg. What matters a few broken bones to the glories of football as an intercollegiate sport? It is all nonsense to say that football is a game that benefits only a few. Look at the youngsters on every vacant lot in Washington during the fall season playing at football! Does anybody suppose that there would be these activities if it were not for the great heroes on the big teams whom these boys read about and look up to and glorify...
...appointment of Professor H. B. Hill as director of the Chemical Laboratory, in place of Professor J. P. Cooke, deceased; and the appointment George B. Foss, M. D. V., as surgeon in charge of the Veterinary Hospital. The position of secretary of the University, which was left vacant by the death of Mr. Bolles, has not yet been filled. Of the governing boards, the Fellows have lost through death Mr. John Quincy Adams, and have appointed as members of the board, Major Henry L. Higginson, and Mr. Samuel Hoar. The Overseers who have been elected to hold office until...