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Johns Hopkins University has already cost between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. The buildings cost about $400,000, and there are the salaries, the library, laboratories, apparatus, etc. In the past year the salaries, fellowships, etc., have taken nearly $100,000 from the income. The annual receipts are about $225,000, and from this income the expenditures are made...
...large crowd assembled at the boat house yesterday afternoon. The crew rowed past the boat house several times and were loudly cheered by the spectators. The launch will not be taken to New London this year, as Professor Agassiz has kindly offered the use of his private launch. George Smyth will run the launch and John Smyth will take charge of the boat house. The crew will leave with their boats at one o'clock this afternoon...
...unpleasant features of the class days of the past has been the presence of undesirable persons in the yard. It has been the constant aim of all class-day committees to keep the yard as free from outsiders as possible and to have it especially reserved for the seniors and their friends. In former years, however, it has always been possible to purchase yard tickets in the stores outside the square, and even Sanders and Memorial tickets were to be had. The probable reason for this has been that the members of the class who did not wish to make...
...judge from the tone of her press, in the successive steps taken by Harvard towards a broader university system. Concerning the recent appointment of a faculty committee of conference at Harvard, the Record moralizes; "Harvard has made many and frequent changes in her educational policy during the past few years, and these seem to have led and to be leading to other and more decisive innovations. She has now arrived at a point where gradual changes must soon cease and the entire surrender of former traditions, customs and systems only remains...
When we consider similar action on the part of the Yale freshmen in 1876 and 1877, and on the part of the University nine last year, we must confess that this move of Yale '86 seems in perfect accordance with Yale's past reputation. The only thing left for Yale to do is to announce the game in next year's Banner as forfeited to Yale by a score of 9 to 0, as has been done in similar cases. Let us hope, however, that Yale will consent to some arrangement by which the decisive game of the series...