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...Mahaffy, author of the "History of Greek Literature," is said to have been one of the best cricket players at Trinity College, Dublin, twenty years ago...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...
...short a time to rank among the very first of American universities. It has been visibly the case with her that men and quality of instruction have gone before unwieldy buildings, constructed mostly for the future, and expensive equipments "for remote purposes." On the other hand, several years ago there was great complaint among the friends of Princeton College that her policy had come to look almost exclusively towards the acquirement of large and showy buildings, and to neglect far too much all effort towards perfecting her corps of instructors and her courses of instruction. In consequence of these remonstrances...
...often lost sight of by undiscriminating fathers in choosing between Yale and Harvard, and by thoughtless conservatives generally. This correspondent points out the well-enough recognized fact that the average age of entrance at Harvard now is about the same as that of graduation fifty years ago, and indeed of graduation now from some of the smaller colleges. This brings an entirely new factor into the question which did not exist then, but which now entirely changes its character. Then, of course, it was proper that a strict discipline and oversight of the students should be maintained by the college...
President Bodine addressed the congregation of Christ Church and of St. Paul's Episcopal Church a day or two ago, on the pressing need of financial support for Kenyon College. He demonstrated by facts and figures that no college of any celebrity was self-sustaining. The list included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and many others that he named. He said that all of the institutions were practically under the control of some religious denomination-Harvard under the Unitarians, Yale the Congregationalists, Princeton under the Presbyterians, and so on to the end of the list. Colleges supported by state instead...