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Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed with the list of rooms for which undergraduates must apply. There are but two rooms in Holworthy, three in Stoughton and none at all in Hollis. As usual College House heads the list in the point of numbers followed closely by Holyoke and Divinity...
...there follows the testimony of almost all the prominent authors and scholars of the world, from W. D. Howells to Victor Hngo, on the subject of the use of stimulants and tobacco. Many approve of a moderate use of both. None of those quoted, however, resort to alcohol as a habitual stimulus to thought. And many yet abjure the use of both alcohol and tobacco. Their combined testimony, however, cannot fail to be of use to any student in forming his opinions on a matter so vexed and disputed as the question of total abstinence and temperance at present...
Most of the societies live and board together; the older ones own houses, and none but the most insignificant are without some sort of a habitation. These houses supply many conveniences which students usually are compelled to do without. Moreover they lessen the expense of living to their inhabitants, especially where the chapter owns the house...
...annual meeting appoint 20 umpires. The secretary shall obtain the addresses in full of each umpire and publish the list in Spalding's Base-Ball Guide. ???2. The visiting club, not less than seven days before each game shall submit to the home club the names of seven umpires, none of whom shall live in the city of the visiting club or be an alumnus or undergraduate of either college. The home club shall produce one of the seven umpires on the ground in season for the game; in case of non-compliance with this section the umpire shall...
There are professors, but this is an honorary position merely. Nearly every week each one gives a voluntary lecture, but few attend. None of the professors belong to the colleges, but to the university itself, whose nominal head is the chancellor, a nobleman, and in reality but little connected with the place. Its real head is the vice-chancellor. Under him are two proctors (far different from ours, since they are very important personages in the community) who are a sort of police captains, and the police force at Oxford is, we are happy to say, quite of a different...