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Under the regulation the time of handing in the list of studies is postponed from Thursday, as heretofore, to Saturday. The object of the change is two-fold. First, to enable a student to attend, if he desires, the meetings of various, courses, and thus to learn the nature of the work which will be done in them before he makes his final choice of studies Second, to avoid changes of electives in the early part of the year...
Under this voluntary system religion is now regarded in the University, not as a part of College discipline and compulsion, but as a privilege and opportunity. The Preachers of the University represent various Christian communions and various parts of the country. Each member of the staff conducts daily morning prayer for a term of three weeks in the first half-year, and a second term of three weeks in the second half-year, and each preacher on four Sunday evenings. The Preacher conducting morning prayers is in attendance for some hours every morning, during his term of duty...
...Society holds weekly meetings in its room, 17 Gray's Hall, throughout the College year. In 1894-95 the first meeting in every month was a business meeting, the second and fourth were lectures on topics of interest by various clergymen, and the third meeting was a religious one, with an address...
During Commencement Day the votes of qualified alumni were cast for the various candidates for overseer. The following were elected: Theodore Roosevelt of New York, C. F. Adams of Lincoln, Edmund Wetmore of New York, Robert Bacon of New York, Robert Grant of Boston, R. M. Morse, of Falmouth...
...official time at the various points of the race was: Half mile-Harvard, 2.18; Yale, 2.20; Columbia, 2.25. First mile-Yale, 4.58; Harvard, 5; Columbia, 5.15. Second mile and finish-Yale, 10.28; Harvard, 10.33; Columbia, 13.18.5. Columbia's bad beat was due to the breaking of Captain Pierrepont's oarlock before reaching the mile flag. Yale pulled uniformly 38 strokes, Harvard 40 to 41, and Columbia 38 to 40 per minute...