Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton, from 49 per cent. in 1750 to 18 per cent. in 1875; at Williams, from 25 per cent. in 1800 and 49 per cent. in 1825, to 12.7 per cent. in 1880; at Amherst, from 64 per cent. in 1825 to 13.5 per cent. in 1880. Weyleyan still shows 30 per cent. of ministers among her graduates...
...liberated the corporation, in his case, from its policy of not accepting donations from undergraduates. It has not yet been decided just where the new building will be placed, as the authorities wish to leave room for expansions of the gymnasium, which has already become too small for the still increasing number of students. If possible, the lockers and bathing rooms will all be transferred to the new edifice, and efforts will be made to raise money enough for a swimming bath. The faculty fully realize that the bathing facilities are entirely inadequate, and, in any case, all the woodwork...
...found with the bathing facilities in the gymnasium. There is no doubt that the apparatus is inadequate for the uses of so many men as now regularly exercise during the afternoons, but, as reported in another column, some radical changes will be made during the coming summer. Still, what will be done next year, does not aid us much just now. It seems to show shameful negligence somewhere, that everyday the hot water gives out in the shower bath-room and the agonies of an icy cold ducking have to be endured immediately after vigorous exercise, or else...
...second article, "An Argument for Cremation" is a very powerful and thrilling story though certainly not an attractive one. A man is found apparently dead by some jolly monks, and in spite of the fact that the body still retains its warmth, they bury it at the abbey. Some time later the monks and their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds...
...next article, a description of a Hoffman concert, is a very readable paper, but it is doubtful if the subject is one which interests the college at large. We have heard so much of the young musical phenomenon of late that little new can be said of him. Still the writer is very successful in what he attempts...