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...England Association of Colleges and Schools held its third annual meeting last Friday afternoon and evening. Most of the chief educators of New England were present, among them President Eliot and Professor Cohn of Harvard, President Seelye of Amherst, President Kendall of Cornell, President Capen of Tufts, and professors from Brown, Wellesley and Smith...
...general reader as some of its predecessors. The work and thought of the essayist is given prominence almost to the exclusion of the writers of fiction. We have little fault to find with the matter presented but we think that if something in a lighter vein had been introduced among the sober products of the essayist the magazine would have been improved...
...been brought to our notice that very little interest has been shown thus far by the freshmen in the Shooting Club. This club, it seems to us, offers great attractions to men who are fond of handling a gun and among the large number of men in the freshmen class there must be many who aspire to become sharp-shooters. It is the custom to arrange a match with the University of Pennsylvania team in the spring and this shoot has always been one of the interesting events of the year. Besides this match ample opportunity is given for practice...
...past four or five years, it has been the custom to organize a glee club among the freshmen. The first steps towards such organization have usually been taken by one or two members of the class independently of the regular musical organizations of the college. While the results have generally been creditable to the freshman classes, it is believed that the formation of a glee club composed of freshmen can be done much more systematically and profitably than heretofore if conducted by the officers of the 'Varsity Glee Club. We understand that the officers of the Glee Club are making...
...WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, the world famed specialist in mind diseases, says: "I am familiar with various systems for improving the mind, including, among others, those of Feinaigle, Gourand and Dr. Pick, and I have recently become acquainted with the system in all its details and applications taught by Prof. Loisette. I am therefore enabled to state that his is, in all its essential features, entirely original; that its principles and methods are different from all others, and that it presents no material analogies to that of any other system...