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Professor Sloane represented the college at the recent alumni meeting in Chicago. President Patten was present at the annual meeting of the alumni of the District of Columbia yesterday. Professor Johnston is still confined to his house, and is not yet able to take charge of his classes. The site chosen for the new dormitory is the ground between Edwards Hali and the new Art building. The plans by Mr. Page, the architect of the Art School, have been accepted. By a recent action of the faculty, the gymnasium will be open all day. Heretofore it has been greatly crowded...
...students at the college proper, at the Divinity, Law and Scientific Schools, 1191 availed themselves of their right of taking out books-an increase of 80 students and 152 users. The percentage of users among the undergraduates has risen a great deal during recent years, as the following tables show...
...view of the discussion now going on over the relation of athletics to scholarship among college students, some facts collected from the recent report of the committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew...
...following extracts are taken from a letter to the Boston Post, criticizing the recent action of the Board of Overseers...
...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...