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...Smith college catalogue, issued yesterday, contains the names of 284 students in the various departments, divided as follows: Post graduates 6; seniors, 49; juniors, 54; sophomores, 66; entering class, 69; music scholars, 25; art scholars...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It has struck me frequently, while engaged in catching flies in the air during some uninteresting lecture, that it would be profitable for others of equal curiosity with myself, if the various busts and statues so profusely scattered through our recitation halls were decorated with placards telling what each represented. My own case, I feel sure, is daily repeated; where some twenty busts line the walls it is quite a tax upon a fellow's knowledge to expect him to name them off to his own personal satisfaction and with sufficient glibness to insure some appearance...
...Reynolds, (volunteer). '85 barge - Austin, Guild, Cobb, Hamlin, Barton, Adams, Harris, (volunteer). Old '82 barge - Lincoln, Atherton, Hartley, Upham, Chadburn, Locke, Harris, (volunteer). The captains of the senior, junior and sophomore crews are requested to be present to take charge of their respective barges. Also the coxswains of the various crews are requested to be present to steer in the race. Officers: Starter, or referee, Mr. Robt. McCook; judges at finish, Mr. H. D. Robbins and Mr. Geo. Agassiz...
...government and discipline did not take place until 1725, nearly a hundred years after the founding of the college, and as thus constituted was termed the 'immediate government.' Ordinary discipline had previously been in the hands of the tutors. The system of having representatives of some one of the various faculties in the corporation has continued until recent times, and has always been regarded as beneficial, as presenting the views of the teaching staff upon all questions of university policy...
...active interest and participation in athletics fall entirely into the hands of those who, by nature or special training, have come to excel therein. To excel is not our only aim; but to afford to the largest number the best chance for physical exercise and enjoyment in all our various games and sports. Tennis, lacrosse and all those sports in which men of comparatively little experience and skill can take part, are of value to this end. The revival of class ball games, of scratch races, of every thing that tends to induce men to participate in athletics more generally...