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Professor Murray, of Oxford, England, is only twenty-four years of age and is probably the youngest man ever elected to a first-class chair in any of the great English universities...
...Dramatic club at Columbia has announced that "Whittington and His Cat" will be produced in the latter part of January. The first performance will be given for the benefit of the Skin and Cancer Hospital. After that, benefits for the crew, foot-ball team and athletic association will be given...
...First, a "Faculty certificate" that all the members of the Princeton Eleven are "bona fide students on the rolls" of Princeton College or university...
...entering and the other in returning to college. The latter is now an instructor in a great preparatory school, and resumed connection with Princeton College as a graduate student several weeks after the work of the year had begun. The other entered Princeton College for the first time, as a special student, only a short time before the Princeton-Harvard game on Nov. 16, which was the first game in which either of them played. The natural, although perhaps mistaken, inference is that these gentlemen were brought to Princeton to play football The inference is strengthened in the one case...
...this case again, no one questions the certificate of Professor Sloane; and no one could have doubted that, had such aid been given, it would have been deserved, since conferred by the authorities of Princeton College. But the question of beneficiary aid-which, it should be noted was first raised by the officers of the Princeton Association-is irrelevant. We are not aware that the receipt of beneficiary aid, earned by good scholarship and good conduct, has anywhere been held to render the recipient ineligible for membership of a crew, a nine, or an eleven. It would have been much...