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...wish every success to the gentlemen who have undertaken to give the Art Club a new lease of life. It would have seemed strange indeed, if enough men interested in art for its own sake could not have been found among our thousand and four undergraduates. That there are in reality plenty of such men is well proved by the number present at the meeting. That the club as newly constituted will be a success, the enthusiasm shown by its members is a guarantee, Only let these members steer clear in future of Harvard indifference and we shall all hope...
...short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception to the rule and may be looked upon as one large school, so general is the influence cast upon it by its many colleges. Few places are more ideal or better fitted...
...learn, however, from the last report of the Overseers that the Library now has a fund of one hundred thousand dollars from the Eben Wright estate with accrued interest, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the administration of the library. In other words the sum is not reserved for the purchase of books or for any one particular purpose, but can be devoted to any object which the library authorities may consider most necessary for a successful administration of the building in their charge...
Yale has taken a stride ahead, and abolished the Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance...
...extraordinary popularity of Rugby foot ball in the north of England was shown Dec. 13 at a match at Bradford between the two strongest clubs of Yorkshire, namely, Bradford and Wakefield Trinity. Twelve thousand tickets were sold before the day of the match, and that day proving fine, the paid attendance totaled...