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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first periodical printed by undergraduates of Harvard College appeared July 14, 1810. It was called the Harvard Lyceum, and its chief editor was Edward Everett (1811). The object in founding this paper was to bring all topics referring to the college before the student body, and to pay particular attention to American literature. The board of editors consisted of seven seniors, and the paper was published semi-monthly. After a successful existence of nine months, the Lyceum stopped...
...been burned in the celebration of some athletic victory, but recent disclosures have proved this supposition false. When the Yale faculty decided last spring that the fence had to be removed to make room for a new recitation hall, a great deal of bad feeling between the student body and the faculty resulted. All efforts on the part of graduates and of undergraduates to save the fence from destruction were of no avail. After the final decision of the faculty, preparations were made by the undergraduates, especially by the senior societies, to tear down the fence, and to carry...
...radical change in the college proper. The object was to do away with the undergraduate department-the Arts School-and make Columbia a University on the German plan, according to which all faculties are on an equal footing, a thing, they said, which could never take place when a student first obtains his general education at a college and then studies for his professional degree at a postgraduate school. This proposed radical change has given way to a more conservative scheme. At present the trustees are debating as to whether they should make the courses in the first three years...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the dirctions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
...University has been extremely fortunate in securing, to fill Prof. Auderson's place, Dr. David J. Hill, late president of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He brings with him a brilliant reputation, and an energy which will give a new impetus to Rochester's progress. He is a profound student, a trained and skilful administrator and an author of text-books which have been adopted by some of the leading universities of the country...