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HOLIDAY RATES.- Round trip tickets at 1.5 regular single fares via. B. and A., N. Y. C., L. S. and M. S., Mich. Cent., C. C. C. and St. L., and P. and L. E. railroads, can be obtained at 36 Thayer...
...chairman of the Brown University Athletic Committee, has composed a report on the general scholarship of the athletes at that university. His report shows the average standing of the athletes to be unusually high. The average standing of twenty-one members of the football team was 77.07 per cent. The fifteen men on the baseball team who competed in any game had averages of 73.10 per cent. One senior stood fifth in his class; another was awarded two degrees for extra work. Professor Munro's report shows that neither football nor baseball are injurious to the scholarship of earnest students...
...report for 1893, recently issued by W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, gives some interesting statistics on education in this country. The whole number of scholars in the schools and colleges, public and private, was 15,083,630, or 22.5 per cent of the entire population. The public enrolment numbered 13,510,719. There were 2812 public high schools, and 1434 private high schools and academies. The universities numbered 451, of which number 310 were for both sexes. Colleges for women alone numbered 143. The equipment of these institutions were valued at $128,872,801, endowment funds...
...present law is preferable to local option.- (a) Judgment of New York City is not so safe as that of the State.- (1) The population of N. Y. City being 80 per cent. foreign-born or children of foreign-born, is unfit to decide American excise questions: N. Y. Post, 9 Aug., '95.- (2) Saloons control the primaries, and local option would put the city government in the hands of saloon keepers entirely: Independent, 29 Aug., '95.- (b) Local Option is liable to grave abuse.- (1) In Wisconsin the town goes so far as to determine the rate of licenses...
...abandoning the present system of indicating a student's rank in his courses by the letters A, B, C, D, and E, and of substituting for it a broader division into three general grades. The change would be for the better, just as formerly the change from per cent. marking was doubtless an improvement. In estimating a student's work it is almost impossible to draw very fine distinctions between the different grades. When it comes to a variation of a few per cent., the absurdity of attempting it is apparent; and the difficulty of that form of estimate extends...