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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...amateur standing and of eliminating professionalism. He recognizes that through the committee the marked abuses, which he attacked so severely in his last report, have been largely remedied. The reader infers that though President Eliot probably retains his personal dislike for football he is not disappointed in the use which the Athletic Committee has made of the trust which the Corporation and Overseers voted to continue to them...
...meeting of the trustees of the college that Mr. Edwin Gould had written to the board that he would pay the expenses of the erection of the new boat-house at One Hundred and Fifteenth Street and Hudson River. This piece of news assures the Columbia men the use of the building as soon as the water is ready to receive them. The dock has been completed for some time past. The construction of the house, it is expected, will take but a very short time. The total cost will be about...
...lower floor has a capacity of 100,000 volumes, while the two upper ones will each contain 60,000 books. The stacks are arranged compactly, leaving, however, sufficient space between them for a comfortable passage-way. In the broad aisles near the windows, tables will be placed for the use of readers admitted to the stacks. The upper floor is especially well lighted by windows, but on the two lower floors electric lights will have to be used a greater part of the time. The books now stored in the art room will be removed to the second floor...
Discussions on the adoption of an honor system in examinations continue and the question of the advisability of this step and the force of such systems as are at present used, has been debated many times in the Unions, societies, and less formal debates. The Princeton honor system is the main subject for discussion, as the conditions there are more like those at Yale than any other college. The Princeton system is far from being an ideal one and its adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods, its use...
...article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...