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...Club alone. Each succeeding entertainment, however, will be open to the public. In the larger cities there will be lists of honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours will be taken yearly through these cities in the effort to arouse a wide public interest for a better class of plays of literary merit. It is an attempt to save the stage from being cast out of the field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president...
...subjects by able writers. The editor was great, the reporter insignificant. Today, however, people are not ready to follow other men's opinions; their one desire is for the news and for all of it. There are not more than four editorial writers in the country whose writings possess wide and strong influence...
...growth of the school. In 1887, only fourteen students were registered; in the present year there are one hundred and eighty-one. The school offers the unusual advantages of combining a measure of academic culture with a thorough training in some branch of science, and it is to the wide dissemination of this fact that the increase in the school is mainly due. Moreover, special effort is made to adapt instruction to the individual student, and to place him in a situation at the end of the course adapted to his abilities...
...reported at San Francisco that Professor Barnard of Lick Observatory, who recently gained world-wide fame by discovering Jupiter's fifth moon, has received a call from Chicago University and will accept...
...Laurie Bliss, of Yale, has a brief paper entitled "The Handling and Training of a College Base Ball Team" in the March number of Wide Awake...