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...current in the college that President Eliot intends to take an extended vacation next year. The custom of giving occasional vacations to the members of the faculty and other officers of the college is most commendable, inasmuch as these temporary absences from college duty results in an increase of vigor in filling the positions which the gentlemen thus favored occupy. Recognizing the efficacy of the custom, the faculty have fallen into the habit of granting similar vacations to the students,-some of six months duration, or, in a few cases, even as much as a year. At the risk...
Student Life, the periodical published by the students of Washington University, St. Louis, says "The future of the University is bright; she is in all the vigor of youth, and it is only a matter of a few years when we who are now receiving instruction in her classic halls can point with pride to her as the most 'superbly endowed' American University...
...present distress. This spring should witness a greater number of contests between our freshmen and second nines, and the various school teams. If the school teams could be made to feel that the eyes of the Harvard management of athletics were on them, there would be an increase of vigor to a degree hitherto unknown. Nor should we stop with base ball. In the autumn let us send out foot ball teams to the various schools, and attempt to awaken there an interest in college sports which will induce men, otherwise uninterested, to enter with a will into steady athletic...
Many of the features of college life are found at Lasell. There is a Glee Club, the members of which sing the old college songs with all the vigor of their Harvard brothers and "cousins." Then, too, there are the societies. The new student who proves herself worthy of the honor is urged to join the S. D., or the Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess...
...heard, and was quite satisfactory in every respect. It was played with a precision, and with a dash and fire that left nothing to be desired. The final movement in particular, the presto, was given with charming delicacy, and accuracy in the softer passages, and an admirably self-controlled vigor in the louder. It was a great pleasure to hear a Beethoven Symphony, at last, and so finely played; It is to be hoped that Mr. Gericke will find it possible to give at least one more in the course of the year...