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...food. Americans visiting the English universities have often remarked on the vigorous, healthy appearance of most of the students. One reason of it is that the living is excellent. In some colleges the hall dinner is much better than in others, but it may be safely asserted that in none has such stuff been served as in Memorial Hall...
...university at Manchester is the outgrowth of Owens College and was originally endowed, like the Johns Hopkins, by a private founder, afterwards by subscriptions. It has become known chiefly by its work in natural science but desires to encourage humanistic studies equally. We anticipate a great future for it. None of the English or Scotch universities are denominational; none have now (since 1871) religious tests, except that the established church in both England and Scotland has possession of the theological faculties. English universities are self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named...
...Bowdoin Orient sings the praises of the stylograph as follows: "Among modern inventions there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile...
...next year. Scarcely any matter can be of more importance, for the effective work and progress of college life, than the election of a competent and suitable man for this position, by the overseers. While almost every one would have some particular choice, if the election rested with us, none will be disposed to grumble at the actual choice, provided that some one reasonably popular and efficient be selected. It would be mere presumption to claim that the students are at all competent to make any affirmative choice from among the various candidates for the position, but it is certainly...
...annual dinner of the New York Harvard Club, which took place at Delmonico's on the evening of the 21st, President Weld read some verses which "were intended," he explained, "to illustrate the plenitude of rhymes for the word Yale, while the fact was well known that there were none rhyming with Harvard...