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...different dress or ornament from those above named, except that in case of mourning he may add the customary badges. Students who are already furnished with clothes, not conforming to the uniform above requried, may continue to wear them on procuring the written request of a parent, guardian, or patron to that effect. Any student violating these regulations and persisting therein after admonition shall be dismissed from the college...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description...
...mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have now become the possession of the world. Judged by his works, Sardanapalus is neither a weakling nor a sensualist, but as statesman and as patron of letters one of the most interesting characters of history...
...June number of the Beacon, the Boston University publication, contains some very amusing statistics of the class of eighty-six. Following are some of the headings into which it is divided: Future Occupation, Politics, Color Eyes, Color Hair, Size Hat, Beard, Patron Saint, Dance, No. of Plucks and Matrimonial Prospects. As Boston University is a co educational institution, one can readily conceive the supreme interest concentrated in these tables...
...some of their "Brethren," they will set before the rest of the world a fair pattern of the kindliness and brotherly love preached by Christ. This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical, but a great deal will surely make...