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...then goes on to compare the rents of rooms at Harvard with that at English universities. "The rent of rooms in the college dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms are pound15, or $75, and so on through the twenty and more colleges and halls. In short, the room rent...
...following named were the officers of the course: Referee, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent; judges, Prof. John W. White, Mr. S. Mitchell, '83, Mr. W. R. Trask, '85; time-keepers, Mr. E. A. Church, U. A. A. C.; Mr. E. A. Pope, U. A. A. C.; Mr. R. D. Sears, '83; judge of walking, Mr. E. E. Merrill, U. A. A. C.; starter, Mr. G. E. Lowell, '83; measurers, Mr. H. B. Cabot, '83, Mr. J. E. Thayer, '85; scorer, Mr. W. M. Burr, '84; clerk of the course, Mr. W. F. Wesselhoeft, '84; assistant clerk of the course...
...another column we clip a letter from the Advertiser, in regard to the voluntary attendance at prayers and church, showing the position which many influential men are last taking on this subject. It has come to be regarded as only a question of time when the present rules in regard to attendance at prayers and at church must be abolished or changed in such a way as to give much more freedom for the students to follow their inclinations in such matters than they have at present. It seems to be a step in the right direction to find...
...Would you favor granting a petition that church attendance on Sunday be left (a) purely voluntary, or (b) subject to parental control...
...matter of church attendance on Sunday, it seems to me that the same principle would govern my action. Whatever influence in religious matters parents would seek to exercise over children after the latter have left the paternal roof should, in my opinion, be by precept and example only; certainly by no further attempt at control...