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...ventilated and totally inadequate. A library building such as this is hardly a credit to the university, and we have complained of it a long time and hoped for an improvement. The suggestion of Professor Norton has an incentive that should give a new and active interest to this object. Such a memorial to Phillips Brooks would be greatly in accord with the character and spirit of the man; a memorial of a lasting character, that will be of practical benefit to coming generations who will never have seen or heard Phillips Brooks, but who will recognize the greatness...
...full sympathy with the object of the recent action of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association, and Harvard is ready to cooperate with Yale in an attempt to exclude the perpetual and the imported athlete...
...adopted the same plan to go into effect immediately. This was done without any authority save the advice of the Yale Advisory Committee. In view of this action the Yale Law School, which according to this new rule is entirely shut out from athletic teams, held a meeting the object of which was to urge a meeting of the entire university to vote whether or not the captains and managers have the right to pass such rules. This meeting will be held tonight and it is generally known that if the students do not ratify the action taken...
...change which was made in the rules of the Inter-Collegiate Foot-Ball Association on Saturday, by a majority vote of the members of the league, is the most important move that has been made in relation to foot-ball for years. Its object is of course to leave no ground for the breaking of the rules in regard to the eligibility of players to positions on the teams of the various universities and colleges. The exclusion of all members of graduate departments will effectually put a stop to the importation of foot-ball material, and the provision in regard...
...comparatively recent establishment of a Schools Examination Board at Harvard was an important step towards improving the condition of schools. For the object of this Board is to examine the work of instruction in any public or private school which is of a grade to prepare students for Harvard College. This examination can be directed over the whole work of the school or over such special parts as may desire it; and as it deals with the organization and methods of instruction of the Schools as well as the character of the work in each study, such an investigation would...