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Last year a movement was started by members of the board of trustees of Columbia College which advocated a radical change in the college proper. The object was to do away with the undergraduate department-the Arts School-and make Columbia a University on the German plan, according to which all faculties are on an equal footing, a thing, they said, which could never take place when a student first obtains his general education at a college and then studies for his professional degree at a postgraduate school. This proposed radical change has given way to a more conservative scheme...
There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board today...
...Ames, on Wednesday, nominated President E. H. Capen of Tufts College to fill the vacancy on the State board of education...
...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...committee feel obliged to call attention to one item of expense in the accounts of all organizations which maintain training tables. It appears that it was once the custom for each student who boarded at the training table to pay into the treasury of the organization as much per week as his board cost him at the table where he usually boarded, thus if his usual board cost four dollars a week, he paid this amount into the treasury, reducing the expense to the organization by so much. Gradually this custom has been abandoned, and though the treasurers send...