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...recent examination for the degree of master of arts in the University of London there were two hundred and thirty-seven candidates altogether, and of these twenty-two were women. Of the women sixteen were successful, or about seventy-three per cent; while forty-two per cent of the men passed. 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...
There is an unprecedented demand for ten cent pieces at the Treasury Department...
...trustees of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., are anxious to secure an endowment fund for the college of $100,000. They have recently received toward this $30,000 in seven per cent. bonds given them by Mr. Thomas Beaver of Danville, Pa., an uncle of General Beaver, the Republican candidate for governor...
With a membership of 700 students, the society is assured of a cash income of $1,400; and if in the course of the year a business of $50,000 is done, which is not an immoderate estimate, the income from commissions, which average about two per cent. would reach $1,000, giving a total income of nearly $2,500, or more than enough to enable the society to be successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this...
...hundred and nineteenth call of bonds of the five per cent. funded loan of 1881, continued at three and one-half per cent. from Aug. 12, 1881, has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury...