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running expenses at about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If a permanent building is desired, a larger sum must be secured. The Greek government, which has all along treated the Americans with especial favor, has offered a piece of land for the purpose. A committee was appointed to consider the best means of raising the required funds. Prof. Gurney of Harvard resigned from the managing committee. The next director will be Prof. Lewis R. Packard of Yale, who is to be succeeded after one year by Prof. J. C. Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, and after two years by Prof...
...cries for civil service reform, which are being sent up all over the land, are but the echoes of the feeling of dissatisfaction in the conduct of our affairs hitherto; feelings which a large part of the country has now, and to which the rest must come in time. The importance of this feeling is shown in all our colleges by the increased attention paid to the study of political economy and civil government, and the eagerness with which such courses are taken. No student now feels he has a good education unless he has intelligent views on the practical...
...some early date. If successful it will be a rare treat for the college and for Cambridge people. Mr. Finch is the most polished orator and closest platform reasoner of all the speakers now engaged in the temperance work, and will compare favorably with any elocutionist in the land. It is reported that a gentleman of influence has taken the matter in hand and he will doubtless accomplish his purpose...
...nine is obliged to practice on Jarvis in the spring, the number of courts cannot be greatly increased over the present limited supply and much discontent will be the result. To prevent this, the Tennis Association would do well to see if it cannot procure some additional land, perhaps in the vicinity of Divinity Hall, or even at Yale the students do not complain of the distance they are obliged to go to reach their athletic grounds at Hamilton Park. It is but a question of time when the increased numbers of students and the growing popularity of the game...
...understand that Professor William Watson Goodwin, of Harvard College, is about to build a house for summer use on Clark's Island. Professor goodwin will have the pleasure of building on land which has descended to him from his ancestor, in an unbroken line, for nearly two hundred years. clark's Island was originally granted by the town, is 1680, to Elkanah Watson and two others. Mr. Watson soon bought out the other proprietors, so that practically the estate has been in the Watson name for nearly two centuries. -[Old Colony (Plymouth) Memorial...