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...Butterfield had persuaded Mr. Butterfield to send "our dear Benjamin" to Harvard on the ground that an undergraduate, under the list of expenses marked "least," could live on $484, but that a divinity student could live on $238, not knowing that this calculation was made years ago, when the study of physiological physchology was in its infancy and the spirituality of divinity students was at its maximum point. I wondered, too, if, in searching the catalogue for economical arguments, she had found the following: "The cost of board to the members of this association is expected not to exceed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 3/27/1882 | See Source »

...understand that the second resignation of the auditor, handed in some time ago, has been accepted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/27/1882 | See Source »

...weather the past few days has interfered greatly with the seniors' games, and though some few started out bravely a fortnight ago with tops and "nigger baby," the cold weather of the past few days has driven them indoors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

...except in natural science, where they have had nearly all the work to do; (2) the tutors and lecturers, who bear the burden of practical work and give their instruction in connection with some college independent of the university proper; (3) private tutors, or "coaches," from whom forty years ago came nearly all the instruction at English universities, who are now much less active, because both university professors and college teachers have become far more efficient than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. | 3/13/1882 | See Source »

John A. Stevens will next week appear at his theatre, the Windsor, in Daly's old melodrama, "Under the Gaslights," which, some years ago, had such a remarkable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS NEXT WEEK. | 3/11/1882 | See Source »