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...welfare of the masses being in such a satisfactory position of prosperity, the next attention of the faculty was to the various athletic and sporting associations, and to the carrying out of the third and fourth of the above propositions. In this regard their moving incentive seemed to be that competition and tournaments had become a fixity in the college system, and the question which was left for them to determine was, how to bring the best influence to bear upon the students taking part. As a result of their deliberation a set of "Regulations of the Committee on Athletics...
...same as that employed at Quincy at present. The island of Philae with its temple of Isis was next illustrated. In this temple no attempt at symmetry was made, and the effect is most pleasing, giving us the most beautiful temple remaining in Egypt. Passing still farther on, various remains of the time of the Ptolemies were illustrated and one temple of the time of Rameses the Great. This is remarkable for containing the oldest inscription in Greek that we have. Prof. Cooke closed with a few very appropriate remarks, and was greeted with great applanse...
Earthquake shocks of considerable severity continue to be felt in various parts of Spain...
...volumes in the Johns Hopkins University, "Studies in Historical and Political Science," a series of monographs on our early institutions by various hands, under the editorship of Mr. Herbert B. Adams, have recently been issued...
...various school journals, the Willistonian is the most readable weekly, the Exonian being vapid, and conveying the idea that it consists chiefly of advertisements. The Notre Dame Scholastic is, on the whole, interesting, though peculiar, and gives the impression that it is not entirely free from censorship. Good taste would seem to us to suggest the omission of brevities that refer to peculiarly sacred subjects, unless the paper aims to be a religious weekly, in which case other of the matter it contains is particularly out of place. We would also suggest that less space be devoted to advertising their...