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Wilbur F. Booth, a student in Yale College, recently appeared before the board of selectmen in New Haven, to be made a voter. He was twenty-one years of age last August, and has been in college two years. His parents reside in Easton, in that State, and the young man has earned his living since he has been in college. He argued his case before the board, and did not succeed in obtaining from them any reason satisfactory to him why he should not be made a voter. But the board held that students in an institution of learning...
...Turf, Field and Farm will offer an international cup, to be rowed for in August next. Ten men, including Hanlan and Lee, will contest for the prize, under the London Sportsman rules...
...August, Mr. Fred Balch, the head waiter, engaged a sufficient number of good waiters, whom he knew, to fill the hall as it had heretofore been filled. But two causes conspired to make him short of waiters when October came, and so forced him to engage new men whom he knew nothing about, and who therefore, some of them, naturally turned out to be incompetent. In the first place, the proprietors of Young's Hotel, which has this summer been enlarged, hired some forty men waiters; and as they pay much higher wages than Memorial can afford to pay, they...
...elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses $249.00. Term opened August 30th, in 1855, and commencement occurred July 16. A six weeks' winter vacation came, however, in January and February. Massachusetts, Hollis, Stoughton and Holworthy were then the only large dormitories. It will be seen that many changes have occurred at Harvard since...
...article on protoplasm in the August number of the Chicago Scientific Journal was written by L. W. Kendall...