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Since 1868, when Dr. McCosh became its president, Princeton College has received $2,500,000 in donations of various kinds...
...Princeton Catalogue contains descriptions of the various courses given, written by the professors in charge - an innovation the college press at Harvard has been urging for years but have not yet secured...
...Lord Rosebery was received by the audience rising to their feet and cheering lustily for a minute or two. Professor Flint opened the proceedings with prayer. For a minute or two the professor was inaudible, the shouting and disorder continuing unabated. When there was silence to some extent, the various clauses in the prayer were greeted with "Hear, hear," "Oh, oh," and the prayer, "Cause our university to flourish in the future," was received with loud cheers. Prof. Kirkpatrick then presented the gentlemen upon whom it had been agreed to confer the degree of LL. D.; but his remarks were...
...wholesome effect. It is, as he says, an abomination and an outrage to allow young men to travel all over the country to play and witness matches, incurring expenses which in many cases their friends cannot afford, wasting time to the neglect of their real work, and exposed to various demoralizing influences. It is the clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely, under penalty of expulsion. To allow and encourage it is a fraud upon parents, the majority of whom send their sons to college to obtain an education in something more valuable than athletics, though these have...
...combination whose object was to prevent "cut" rates. Several students took the trouble to write to New York to the railroad headquarters asking for reduced terms to clubs. By return mail they received a large bundle of hand-bills and time-cards, setting forth the merits of the various roads, but their request for "cut" rates was politely but firmly refused. The reasons given for discrimination in favor of Yale, and against Harvard students, were perfectly satisfactory. New Haven is a way station, so to speak, and as the tickets issuing from there are not in great demand...