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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of volumes in a library is not always a criterion of its value to the student, but it is interesting to know the extent to which the colleges of the United States have accumulated libraries and their comparative sizes. We append a list showing the number of bound volumes in the libraries of the principal colleges of the United States...
...this evening. Mr. George W. Cable will speak, taking for his subject, "My Conscience and My Vote." It is not only as a novelist that Mr. Cable is known to the world; for some years past he has had the enviable reputation of being a most popular lecturer before student bodies. His words of this evening will be given more in the manner of an informal talk than in that of a lecture. Everyone of us has heard so much of late as to whether our vote should be cast strictly according to party principles or according to our conscience...
Each medical student is allowed free two copies of the Medical Catalogue, which is reprinted from the University Catalogue. This munificent gift of the faculty to its deserving pupils reminds one of the old Cambridge Blue-book, so far as external appearances go. The work of distributing the catalogue progresses from now onward...
...last issue, the editorials deserve particular mention. They are frank and honest, and will serve to enlighten more than one student in regard to two questions closely connected with college life: the athletic question and the "coaching" question. From personal experience we know that there are scores of students who are almost entirely ignorant both of the status of the body which now governs our athletics and of the course of events which led to the establishment of that body. There are also scores of students who have never stopped to think of the evils which attend the system...
...those which are remote from the influences of large cities. Even the greater universities, as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, have never been primarily places for spending three or four years pleasantly, and incidentally places of instruction, as was the case with Oxford and Cambridge during the last century. Every student at an American college goes to college with the fixed idea of learning something...