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...spoke of the constitution and mentioned some of its salient features. Applicants must be graduates of some college and have taken a degree. The college course must be at least three years. The dues are to be $50 a year for resident members, and $25 a year for non-resident members. The initiation fee is to be $50. Any one living within a fifty-mile radius of the City Hall is to come under the head of resident members...
...salient faults in the rowing are as follows: Number 6 swings out of the boat and goes back too far; he fails to grip the water firmly enough at the catch. Number 5 has not recovered from his hang and is weak at the finish. Number four is rather stiff in his movements. Number 2 fails to get his oar in well. Bow is stiff. Yesterday the names and weights were as follows: Stroke, Goddard, 181; 7, Jones, 162; 6, Tilton, 191; 5, Upham, 191; 4, Watriss, 167; 3, Perkins, 169; 2, Nelson, 165; bow, Hutchinson...
...then vexed question of which college would win the football championship. Speaking of the condition of things in November Mr. Hodge says that Harvard football is characteristic of the Harvard spirit of indifference. Yale is always conservative. The extremis individualism of the college spirit at Princeton, is the most salient point of her eleven's play. Mr. Hodge shows some judgment in pointing out the merits and defects of each team, but ventures no final opinion as to which will win. The article is accompanied by a photograph of the Princeton eleven...
...Cincinnati, have just made a new venture in the publication of law books which bids fair to prove very successful. It is a list of "Questions and Answers to Anson on Contracts," by James R. Jordan, of Cincinnati college. The object of the book is to give succinctly the salient points of contract law, to train the student in asking and answering the question why in all matters of law, and particularly to clarify the subject for those who in their private studies may not have the benefit of the systematic quizzing of the recitation room. The book...
...charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...