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Senator Proctor of Vermont will probably introduce into the Senate this week a bill looking to the foundation of a great national university in Washington. The bill is said to be practical, and to have features that will commend it to the support every congressman. The framer is Ex-Governor John W Hayt, of Wyoming, an experienced educator, who represented the American universities at the university celebrations in the Old World, and who is familiar with institutions of learning on the continent. He thinks that no place in the world has so many promising possibilities and advantages as Washington...
...Lovett's paper on "Cardinal Newman" is, as has been said, very careful and scholarly, but it has not the life to commend it to the ordinary reader, and the pains taken with it will not make up to him for its length. The fact that in spite of this length the substance is of excellent material, does not prevent its being...
First of all we wish to commend very highly the plan of printing a number of pictures especially appropriate to the Christmas-time and above all the pictures by Americans. There are reproductions of no less than five paintings by our own artists. One which we at Harvard should be interested in the "Mother" by Edward E. Simmons, himself a Harvard man and the author of the window in Memorial which the class of '84 put up. The others are by Abbott H. Thayer, Mary L. Macomber, E. H. Blashfield and F. V. Drumond...
...this connection we desire to commend the action of the H. A. A. in deciding to hold a meeting open to all amateur in the spring. Harvard has exception facilities for holding such a meeting, and there is every reason to expect that it will prove a great success. It should be under taken in a generous spirit. Our indebtedness to the amateur athletic clubs of New York and Boston is large in one sense, and we should endeavor to show them in this meeting our appreciation of the many courtesies extended to Harvard athletes...
...current issue of Harper's Weekly a Harvard graduate makes some suggestions for improving the game of foot ball which are worth more than passing attention. Some of these suggestions commend themselves at once to any lover of the game; others are radical, would necessarily greatly affect the character of the game, and can be discussed intelligently only by men who have had long experience as players and by careful students of the game. One of the latter class is the suggestion to separate the rush lines by a space of three or four feet at every scrimmage. As explained...