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...pathfinder to every interest in the University the Register, just published, is complete in all details. This year, more than ever before, it has become a University Register, for a new department which is entitled "The Graduate Schools" has been added and is concerned with the various activities among the graduate students. The incorporation of this department in the Register is very gratifying, for the interest and activities it represents affect quite as many men as the undergraduate sections of the volume. Another pleasing feature of the present volume is the new department, "Scholarship," which has to do with...
...England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy will hold its annual dinner at the American House, Boston, this evening at 7 o'clock. The speakers will include many prominent men, among whom are President Meiklejohn, of Amherst; Rev. George H. Roed '99; Hon. Joseph Walker; Judge James M. Morton, Jr.; Thomas W. Lamont '92; Hon. Lee McClung; and H. P. Amen '79, principal of the academy. A business meeting and an informal reception will be held between 6 and 7 o'clock. Dinner tickets at $1.50 each may be had of the treasurer this evening...
...total number of men who replied, 92 are living at home. Among these, 23 would prefer to be alone if they were in college dormitories, 52 would have taken room-mates, and 4 others would have roomed with other men upon certain conditions. The remainder of the answers, 393 in number, were from men who are not living at home. The men without room-mates total 156, 119 of them having bed-rooms and studies, and 37, bed-rooms only. There are 178 men living in groups of two, 50 in groups of three, 8 in groups of four, while...
...commenting upon the recent selections of "All-American" teams Parke H. Davis says in the Daily Princetonian: "The selection of an 'All-American' eleven today as a serious undertaking is impossible. It is impractical to assume that among 10,000 players there can possibly be eleven best men. It is not less impractical to assume that a single observer or even a jury of observers, can even approximately select and reject material that they have never seen...
President Eliot was re-elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League at the league's meeting in Milwaukee on Saturday. Among other officers elected were R. W. Belcher '06, secretary, and G. T. Keyes '89, assistant secretary. The league again urged the passage of the pending bill for the improvement of the foreign service, and went on record as opposed to all preferences of individuals or of special classes in making government appointments. It also expressed confidence in President-elect Wilson to support the merit principle...