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...well as to young men. With a few alterations the routine of life at Girton is very much the same as in all the ladies' colleges. The hours of refection are much the same as in all homes. Breakfast, after prayers at eight, goes on from a quarter-past eight to nine. Luncheon is a movable feast from twelve to three. The dinner hour is six. There is tea at four, and again at nine in the evening. The lectures are generally given in the afternoon. There is a reading-room, with use of pianos. The students may invite friends...
Private individuals in the United States have given $70,000,000 to the cause of education during the past twelve years...
Smith College has grown so rapidly during the past year that two new dormitories are necessitated...
Other colleges value the inter-collegiate cup as highly as they do any other prize to be won in the athletic arena. But at Yale there has in the past been an unfortunate feeling that this championship could add but little to the laurels won in other branches of athletics. The natural consequence of this feeling has been that the half-hearted efforts put forth to take a respectable position at the inter-collegiate games have invariably met with the humiliating defeat which they deserved. Now, however, that the college is fully alive to the importance of making a determined...
Prof. Child has been prevented from meeting his classes for the past few days on account of illness...