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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...education offered; and those which question the possibility of securing a stable body of extension teachers." In regard to the first ground for doubt Professor Palmer says that the conditions of population and of popular education are not the same here as in England. There the universities exist only for a class, and the common people are unable to get their advantages, while here the colleges are organized by the people and for the people. The compactness of the country of England also affords great advantages to the extension movement there which it would not have here...
...that the Board of Directors has decided that there is not enough interest in boating at Columbia to warrant putting a 'varsity crew on the water, what interest in rowing does exist in the college centers in the freshman crew. Forty-seven candidates for the '95 boat have presented themselves and the following will be kept in training for the present...
...also interesting to note that Weed, Crane, de Rochemont, and Davis of the first crew are all new men, none of them having rowed before. Bell, Breckenridge and Blake have had the advantage of considerable training last year. In spite of the many individual faults which now exist, the chances of developing a strong crew seems to be very good...
...independence, it was evident that the Northern and the Southern States would be driven by their permanent hostility to each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...
...which seems wisest to those who are in a position to know most about the true state of affairs. By appealing to the members of the D. K. E. itself we feel sure that the Overseers have hit upon the surest way to abolish the evils which undoubtedly have existed and may still exist in the society. A writer in the current issue of the Monthly has clearly stated the futility of any attempt to legislate away the evils of which complaint is made. The only sure way to control them is through student opinion. This force has already accomplished...