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President White of Cornell. says "The most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from their breakfasts, with minds intent upon the recitation of the next hour, is certainly a very doubtful way of inducting young men into the beauty of holiness...
...splendid new club house of the New York Athletic Club is probably the finest building in the country belonging to an athletic organization. Beside the usual rooms of a club house it contains a gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures...
Instead of pennant for the class wining the greatest number of events in the three meetings, the notice simply says that a prize will be given. Last year '85 won the pennant. A general excellence prize will be given as usual. The events to be contested to win it are the parallel bars, flying rings, horizontal bars, running high jump, two hand vault, and running broad jump. The last event has been substituted for the standing high jump, which formerly was one of the sertes for the general excellence cup. Entries can be made to the secretary of the association...
...examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season? Or are we to believe that a spirit of forbearance has crept in among them? We are led to hope that the latter solution of the problem is the true...
Again the colleges (?) of Ohio come up for comparison with the collegiate institutions in other parts of the country, and, as usual, to their discomfiture. This time it is at the hands of a leading newspaper of Cincinnati, which makes these statements...