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...Girard has bequeathed to the French Association for the Advancement of Science a capital sum of $20,000, the interest of which is to be devoted every five years to the encouragement of researches into the antiquity of man and his relation to geological ages...
...gymnasium at Girard College should not have been closed even temporarily. The education it supplies is as important as that given in any other department of the college. The students may have sufficient out-door exercise, but when the gymnasium is not open they must lack the systematic physical training which can only be had under a competent instructor. When the master of this branch is ill his place should be supplied, just as would be the place of any other professor under the same circumstances...
Hereafter, no property will be leased by Girard College for barroom purposes...
...orphan boys are being educated at Girard college...
...satisfactory to learn that the Trustees of Girard College have decided not to allow its property in future to be used for bar-room purposes. However convenient it may be for the Faculty that the building of the college should be provided with a bar, it is nevertheless undesirable from the point of view of morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well...