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...looking over the preparations for the various crews, one is struck by the fact that unwonted energy is being expended to get the crews into good and effective form. The freshmen are working with a vigor and enthusiasm which has not been shown for years. In about a week they will be placed under the care of an efficient and experienced coach. This, coupled with the fact that they are unusually heavy, muscular men, will make them dangerous competitors in the race...
...college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news of note. Our account would give the impression of a dry bundle of names and figures, but the editors have been signally successful in enlivening such solid matter with humorous cuts in a lighter vein. Throughout these drawings are capital...
...secretary of the society for the ensuing year. The pamphlet includes the reports of the secretary and the treasurer; the report of the committee (Prof. J. W. White, chairman,) appointed to consider measures for doing away with the granting of the degree Ph. D. honoris causa; synopses of the various papers read at the meeting, including one on "Semitic Personal Pronouns" by Prof. Troy of Harvard; and the annual address of the retiring president, Professor F. D. Allen...
Today is the last day of the Institute Fair. There will be various attractions during the day enumerated in the advertisement, and a dance from ten till midnight. It will be kept open until midnight in accordance with a petition handed in by the exhibitors and their assistants...
...other hand is just beginning to find out that in a lack of athletic sports is the greatest defect of her system of education. The minister of public instruction of the German empire, it is reported, has recently issued a circular addressed to the authorities of the various gymnasia and universities of the country instructing them to encourage athletic sports at these institutions in every way in their power. The reason for this move is said to lie in the alarming deterioration that is beginning to appear in the physical character of the youth of the country - in the graduates...