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...Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
There will be a course of four lectures given in New York next month in aid of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The lecturers will be Dr. Waldstein, Dr. Gildersleeve of Johns Hopkins, Prof. Merriam of Columbia and Prof. Goodwin of Harvard. - Exchange...
...Princeton alumni of New York dined at the Brunswick last Thursday night, and heard Prof. Alexander Johnston speak upon "The New Princeton." An election of officers were first held, resulting in the choice of President Henry J. Van Dyke, D. D., '73; Vice-Presidents, James W. Alexander, '60; Hon. R. S. Green, '51; John Cadwalder, '59; J. Coleman Drayton, '76, and Charles S. Scribner...
...Prof. Johnston, in his address, said that an impression had gone abroad that foot ball and base base were the principal studies at Princeton, but that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term...
...Apropos of your editorial remark upon Prof. Palmer's answer to his critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter...