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There are many men in college who have cameras and a few who use them during the college term. Some say that there is nothing to photograph during the winter, but I think they are wrong. Let us see what we can do. During the last week I "took" at least eight or ten fellows in my room; some in their torch-light uniforms, some in fancy dress, and some in their ordinary clothes. I also got a good picture of the ruins of the car stable after the recent fire, and Thanksgiving day I took two very amusing instantaneous...
...PHNCETON. -Preparations are now being made for the opening of the new art school during the coming winter term. This department will not seek to give technical instruction, but will consist of lectures on the history of art. Prof. Allen Marquand will offer a course to the senior class on art in antiquity, with special reference to the arts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome. Prof. Prince, of New York, will lecture on the histories of various arts. President McCosh has consented to give a few lectures on aesthetics, and Prof. Osborne on the anatomy of facial expression. The college...
...said that the number of freshmen at Oxford this term is unprecedentedly large. Students of narrow means are much more numerous than twenty years ago; in fact, in this respect, Oxford seems to be returning to the sixteenth century, when the sons of persons in what in England is called the lower middle class-yeomen, shopkeepers, etc.-made up much of the university...
Several men are taking fencing lessons this term...
...such a simple method of drawing books. The library might do half the educational work of the college if the students only gave it a proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular are likely to put off their initiation into the awfully complicated net-work of procedure at the library, and too often this delay extends through the sophomore and junior years, and as we have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought...