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...does not hear so much about young men working through a course at college in this age of rapidly made fortunes. Neither does the student who considers a suite of luxuriously furnished rooms a necessity astonish the world by a brilliant record. What is the effect on the really and truly poor young man? It is no romance, but a stern reality, that requires a vast deal of moral courage and self-respect to enable him to hold on to his poverty and go through. Ten chances to one he will, if he does go through, come out ahead...
...Only twenty-seven per cent of the men were placed in the first division, but sixty-eight per cent of the women reached that rank. That is to say, while every woman graduating but one was in the first division, only one man in three was so placed. The age of the women was slightly less than that of the men. Such facts as these will impress the most prejudiced person of woman's capacity for work; but, unhappily, zealots will use them as the basis of utterly untenable conclusions...
...Barnwell, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1822, is dead, at the age of 81 years. Mr. Barnwell has been United States Representative and Senator and afterwards president of the University of South Carolina...
...through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train in the art of teaching those students who desire to become schoolmasters, and to secure the greatest possible economy in cost as well as time. In these aims it has succeeded. Its students obtain their degrees at the age of nineteen, and it is found that the annual change of Pound84 is sufficient to cover all expenses of college and university life. The college comprises students of all denominations. Its educational success is proved by the facts that twenty-six of its members have reached the B. A. degree...
...support of the institution.... In addition to those already present others are expected, and with them the well-known Hellenist, Mr. Felton. All the members of the American school have already acquired an extensive knowledge of ancient Greek. The director of the school, a man fifty years of age, is the leading Hellenist in America and England, a professor in Harvard University at Cambridge, translator of the Morals of Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present...