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...interesting reading. Harvard has not lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce...
...first Philharmonic Concert will be given in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evening, the 18th. Among the selections for the programme will be the Overture to Ruy Blas, by Mendelssohn; Beethoven's Eighth Symphony; Overture to Lohengrin, by Wagner. Single tickets, one dollar; six tickets, four dollars...
ELIZA DARLING, of Michigan University, writes to the Nation that May Wright Thompson, when she says that she "is informed that at Ann Arbor most of the lady students are believers in suffrage," is wrongly informed. Her own opinion is based on the result of an inquiry among the ladies of the literary department; of the fifty-three interviewed, two would give no opinion whatever, five were undecided, fourteen in favor of woman's suffrage, and thirty-two more or less decidedly opposed. Only the voice of the Annex can decide this vexed question...
...AMONG business men, many of whom look upon a college education as of doubtful advantage from a money-making point of view, there is a pretty general feeling that the University instruction might be so enlarged as to include the rudiments of business. It is a common complaint among those who graduate from Harvard, that they are obliged to begin at the lowest round of the ladder, and do the work commonly assigned to boys of fifteen or sixteen. This is, for the most part, unquestionably true, and as a partial remedy, the writer would propose the following plan...
...meeting, on the whole, was the most successful that has been held; and the Bicycle races bid fair to take a permanent place among our college sports...