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...voted to make some necessary changes in the auditor's room, erecting a desk and railing. These improvements are not to exceed three hundred dollars. Messrs. Hubbard and Cushing were appointed a committee of supervision. After a pretty thorough and general discussion of the coffee question, the whole matter was left as at present, for another trial. The steward reported that the extra cost of coffee for dinner was about seven cents per week for each...
...Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other students. Although there is need of some reform in regard to the performance of their duties, yet, on the whole, the institution deserves to exist, if for no other reason, merely because it spends the money of the university in a meritorious...
While Dr. McCosh, president of Princeton, argues for more study and less athletics, Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard, remarks: "It is agreed on all hands that the increased attention given to physical exercise and athletic sports within the past twenty-five years has been on the whole of great advantage to the university, and that the average physique of the mass of the students has been sensibly improved." Harvard certainly turns out as good scholars as Princeton, and its students are better disciplined. President Eliot's views are sounder than those of President McCosh...
...various school journals, the Willistonian is the most readable weekly, the Exonian being vapid, and conveying the idea that it consists chiefly of advertisements. The Notre Dame Scholastic is, on the whole, interesting, though peculiar, and gives the impression that it is not entirely free from censorship. Good taste would seem to us to suggest the omission of brevities that refer to peculiarly sacred subjects, unless the paper aims to be a religious weekly, in which case other of the matter it contains is particularly out of place. We would also suggest that less space be devoted to advertising their...
...willing, under the circumstances, to take the office. Although the crew suffer greatly in the loss of stroke oarsman, the real difficulty at present lies in the unwillingness of several members to row again this year. The entire matter has been wisely referred to a meeting of the whole class. A point arises here which has before been urged in these columns, - the advisability of setting the day for the class races a week earlier than heretofore. The reasons for such a change are stronger than any arguments on the other side. The apprehensions, every year, of one class...