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President Eliot will read a paper before the Nineteenth Century Club next Tuesday on the "Study of Greek...
Prof. A. S. Hill has so far recovered his health as to be able to take a trip to Europe. It is understood that the lectures in Rhetorie, which he has been accustomed to deliver during the second half year will be read by one of the instructors in English...
...Tufts College alumni of Boston, have a club which holds monthly meetings during the winter season, at which papers are read and dinners eaten...
...with great pleasure that we noted in the table of contents of the January New Englander an article on "Gentlemanliness in College Athletics," by Mr. A. L. Ripley of Yale. When we came to read the article our pleasure was even more extreme. Mr. Ripley declares that our college sports are characterized by a spirit that is unbecoming among gentlemen, and that the remedy must be obtained by the students themselves raising their low ethical standard. There is nothing particularly new in either of Mr. Ripley's assertions, but, in view of the quarter whence they come, considerable importance should...
...second annual convention of the Modern Language association of America was held December 29, in Columbia College. Professor Franklin Carter of Williams college presided. The chairman read some interesting unpublished letters of Jean Paul Richter. Several technical papers were also read. The evening session was occupied by a discussion on the question, "Would it be Desirable to substitute Modern for Ancient Languages in Admission Examinations in Colleges?" The question was discussed at length, and was finally laid aside...