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...different from that at Harvard, and yet not the ordinary method of prescribed work. In the freshman year the work is a prescribed course, the same for all, and includes a course in military tactics. Military drill is required of the men in order that the Institute can obtain a yearly grant from the government. The freshman cadets make a fine battalion of several companies, drilling in the gymnasium several times each week. At the close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry...
...composed of miners. and a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Upsilon, the civil engineers society. Hops at the gymnasium, a senior ball, and class suppers complete the slender round of amusement for the men of the Institute. The hard work required certainly turns out very capable men, but to obtain their degrees the students have to forego most of the pleasures and social intercourse which make life at most other colleges so pleasant as well as useful...
...Libby, '86, has left college. He expects to obtain a position on a New York religious weekly...
...crew, we now supplement it by a description of the crew which our rivals will put upon the water this season. We are indebted to an article which recently appeared to an article which recently appeared in the News for the following account of the men who will probably obtain seats in the Yale boat. Thirteen men are now in training for the crew, including all but the of three men who rowed in last year's race. The three vacant slides are those of Scott, No. 7; parrott, No. 6 and peters, No. 5. It is improbable that...
...gymnasium on any afternoon or evening discloses a state of affairs which is highly creditable to the college. All the apparatus is in use, and not only by the men who are training for positions on our various teams, but also by the students whose only object is to obtain more private exercise. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was first built, it was thought that it would prove sufficient for the needs of the college for many years. If, however, the athletic interest continues to increase in its present ration, new accommodations will be needed in the near future...