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Columbia University has announced the titles of--courses totalling over 250 lectures to be given under the auspices of the Institute of Arts and Sciences. In speaking of these lectures, which have been growing in popularity since their inception three years ago, the New York Evening Post says...
...Three years ago the Institute of Arts and Sciences as a division of a university was an untried experiment. There was grave doubt on the hand as to whether such a system of popular lectures on a subscription basis would receive adequate support in New York city, which already offered so many free lectures, and also the best in the filed, of drama and music. There was doubt on the other hand as to how far the university could undertake the popularization of knowledge without detracting from or interfering with the regular academic work and standards...
...other the fine material of flank men. The end positions were exceptionally weak last year, but this year there is an abundance of ends, and good ones, too. Commerford, captain of last year's freshman team; Lynch, the other man on the end of the freshman line a year ago; Moseley; Gates and Church form a quintet that ought to recall the days when the blue ends outshone those of every team Yale...
Practice for the University cross-country squad, which began a week ago under the direction of Coach Shrubb, has proceeded with rather easy work so that candidates who should report today will not be handicapped materially...
...swimming pool in the Union has announced that the idea must be given up for the present, owing to the increased cost of the pool. The first estimate gave $16,000 as the probable cost; $10,000 of this was available from the gymnasium fund raised several years ago. To raise the additional $6,000 would have been a comparatively easy matter, but when the announcement was made that the pool would cost more than $25,000, the committee decided that it was too much of a proposition to assume just...