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After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...
...special interest to freshmen - a $300 prize. The authorities of the Johns Hopkins University offer this valuable prize, open to the students of any college and to persons interested in mathematics, for the valid proof or disproof of this proposition: "A ground form and a syzygant of the same degree and order cannot appertain to the same binary quantity," The solution must be handed in before...
...always been a credit to the university. Looking back on its career it seems incredible that such a paper, one that is representative in every sense, could be suffered to discontinue for financial reasons, and yet the fact is staring the college in the face. There is no valid reason why the four hundred subscribers should not be secured, and they will be easily obtained if every man sees to it such appeal to. Harvard ought to be necessary, but since it seems to be so let it be generously heeded...
...hold active connection with a secret Greek college fraternity is within the general powers of the board and faculty, is not in violation of the constitution of Indiana, nor of any act of congress in relation to agricultural colleges, nor of any legislative enactment, and, unless unreasonable, is valid; courts have the power to review the action of the board and faculty in certain cases, but can only do so where the power conferred on them is abused; an unreasonable by-law is invalid; but, before a court can declare a by-law void for unreasonableness, such unreasonableness must...
Heretofore, the challenging party has never raised any valid objection to the course named by the party challenged. This year Harvard had solid grounds for refusing to row at New London, and having put herself on record by making the same objections when she was victorious, she considered that she had the right to decline to go to New London...