Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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AMONG the other reforms held in view by the College Government, we trust that an alteration and improvement of the Gymnasium holds a prominent place. The present building was erected some dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours...
...author of the article in Scribner. The writer in the Nation grants that "liberally endowed and carefully administered scholarships are among the most efficient attainable means of higher education in our land," but thinks there would be great practical difficulty in finding an organization to properly administer this particular trust. We see no reason for apprehending such a difficulty. Few of the hundreds of scholarships already established in our colleges, few of the many charitable institutions throughout the land, the managers of which need the best judgment in deciding between many applicants for assistance, fail to accomplish their object through...
...Globe.All who had the pleasure of seeing Miss Ethel during her brief two weeks of performance were heartily sorry to hear of her sudden illness. Miss Ethel has won the Boston heart, and we trust that she will soon return and complete her too short engagement. The part of Agnes has been assumed by Mrs. Barry this week with great success, considering how short was the time given her for preparation...
...system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...