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...competent to profit by it the advantage of pursuing their studies in the heart of Greece, free of charge for tuition, and under competent direction. The school occupies a comfortable building in a pleasant quarter of the modern city, and possesses already an admirable working library of about one thousand volumes. "It is now supported by a confederation, so to speak, under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America, of fifteen of our chief colleges. This arrangement, though admirable as a temporary expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many...
...from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students, "as much as five thousand," as one of the students said, are all gathered together in two large attics,-either one of which might easily be transformed into a skating rink,-and would occupy the space taken up by one of our college buildings. As is usual with other colleges, the special students are allowed...
...delegation from the Harvard Canoe Club will attend the meeting of the American Canoe Association at the Thousand Isles this summer...
...subscriptions. The management hopes, therefore, that the men who owe money to the university crew will take this opportunity of paying, as it will greatly assist the treasurer in his duties which are particularly arduous at this time of the year. As over a thousand dollars have yet to be paid, we earnestly hope that each and every subscriber to the university crew will see to it that his subscription is paid promptly and in full...
...compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale...