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While Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania received the benefit of the Tyndall fund, Columbia has been the first to take active steps in putting it to use. Her trustees have recently drawn up a series of regulations in regard to the John Tyndall Fellowship. The Fellow who is to be appointed on the recommendation of the president and the professors in the Scientific Department, must pursue a course of study and research in experimental physics for the term of one year. The first incumbent is Michael Pussin, who graduated at Columbia in 1883 with honors...
BRASS BAND. Rehearsal to-day, at 4 p.m.; Roberts Hall. No mistake as to use of hall...
...future candidates for the 'varsity. There are plenty of men in college who, if properly coached, would make very strong oarsmen, but who, through diffidence or laziness, decline to put themselves forward. The boat-house contains several eight oared barges which might as well be put to some use; so there is no reason why three or four crews should not go out every afternoon at a certain hour. Last year the president of the boat club went out every day with a scratch crew, and the result of his labors has been made apparent in the closeness...
...these men, Harris and Latham have now been rowing four years. Ayer has rowed for three years. Dewey, Roberts and Guild have rowed before. Bradford and Fessenden are new men. '86 use their last year's shell, which they bought from the university crew...
...winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have been tried in vain. There is, however, only one means by which this objectionable feature of the yard can be inadicated, and that is by the liberal use of barriers at the entrance and end of each path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate. The man who uses the path most, best realizes its value, and therefore can hardly be expected to forego, unless met by some convincing argument...