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...American tendency to apply the name of "college" to every school that attempts to impart anything beyond the first rudiments of knowledge is well shown here. There are three hundred and thirty-five institutions mentioned in this Directory, which differ in everything but in name. At one of these institutions there are 1,330 students, and at another there are 7 students, but they are both called "colleges...
Argus.PROFESSOR GUYOT, of Princeton College, the physical geographer, has been requested by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to prepare a biography of Professor Agassiz. He is a native of Switzerland, and has been a personal friend of Agassiz from his boyhood. - College Courant...
...Convention of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, held in Hartford January 21, 1874, adjourned to January, 1875. There are many reasons, we believe, for setting the time of meeting at an earlier date. Questions of far more than ordinary moment with reference to the future conduct of regattas will demand the attention of the convention, and its decision will greatly influence the course of action of those who are, either directly or indirectly, to be concerned in the regatta of 1875. It is particularly desirable that the choice of a regatta committee should be effected earlier than last year...
WENDELL GOODWIN,Captain Harvard University Crew.SUMMARY.Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 18, 1874 - Fourth Regatta of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, - University Race for the Championship...
Could this abandonment of a practice which has been a serious blot upon the character of American Colleges be prolonged for two years more, we may fairly hope that in ceasing to be a "College Custom," the practice would lose its last hold upon young men who are justly proud of the good name of Harvard Students as gentlemen...