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...offers two prizes, of one hundred dollars, and fifty dollars, for short essays on the best methods of appointing executive officers, and selecting laborers in municipal governments, and the terms and tenures most suitable to municipal offices. Competition is open to all who may choose to write, and the whole subject or any branch thereof may be treated. It is expected that the essays will be examined by President Francis A. Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Shaler of Harvard University, and Richard H. Dana, Esq., of Boston. Accepted essays will become the property of the Association...
...great variety of ways could the time be profitably employed for those of us who in after life expect to war against the curse of strong drink. I am aware that a temperance organization in this university receives little enough encouragement from either the students as a whole or the authorities at the head of it. In this regard it certainly does not represent the best thought of the country. But this should not deter us who have convictions of the iniquity of the liquor business from putting forth our best efforts while here to thoroughly equip ourselves...
...University Quarterly, published at New York-city, discusses the desirability of the city of New York as a location for a university. He assumes that as that city is the largest in the country it would be the most desirable city for such an institution, and hinges the whole question upon the relative merits of a location in a city and one in a small town. He combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education...
...influence upon each other. If a high standard of morals exists on the part of leaders, great benefit results to all others. The four years spent at college are an important epoch in the life of a student. Impressions are made to which the memory looks back through the whole future career. Friendships are formed which abide. Where a college exists by itself, students are thrown more together. These impressions are stronger. The friendships which are formed are more earnest. The college life makes a larger part of the life of the individual. All these are advantages which cannot...
...number of '87 men have already shown a commendable spirit in putting down their names as members of the Co-operative Society. Their example can well be imitated by the whole class...