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This time it is "Storer College," West Virginia. They want only $15,000 for a "John Brown" Professorship, to be filled by a colored person. We recommend for the position some one of the Memorial Hall faculty...
They do things better in the West. To be sure, it might be said that the freedom of the press is somewhat infringed upon, but then the majesty of the law must be vindicated at all hazards! At a certain "university" we wot of, whenever the college papers are smitten with a reform fever and begin to cry out for a reform in college administration, the editors are promptly "summoned," and sternly warned to mend their evil ways. If this does not prove effective harsher measures are sometimes adopted; the terrors of suspension are sometimes brought into requisition...
...hoped that the banquet to be given President Eliot and members of the faculty, Jan. 27, by the Harvard Club of Chicago, will help to stimulate a deeper interest in the affairs of the university in the West. To this end the managers have determined to make it the finest affair of the kind ever given in the city. Professors Child and Goodwin and Messrs. C. F. Adams and Phillipps Brooks have signified their intention of accompanying President Eliot to Chicago. Walter C. Larned, a prominent Chicago lawyer, is chairman of the committee. F. S. G. Reed, '81, will...
...position such as no boy ever occupied before. He feels very speedily all the goldenness of the place he occupies. He intends to be wealthy and successful. If he does not see his way clear to the top-most position at the outset he cuts loose and goes West. We have so much of wealth and pleasure that the boy's appetites and pleasures are unduly stimulated, and before he is aware of it they master him. Temptations surround him such as his father knew not of, and in a great city he will find it difficult...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, generally warmer south to west winds, lower barometer, generally cloudy weather and snow or rain...