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...information as the following: the total annual sum paid in salaries to professors, instructors, and assistants is $550,000, and the total sum paid to students in fellowships, scholarships, aids, and prizes is $134,000. Nowhere in the world is the promise of young life rated so highly in comparison with the performance of maturity, and, paradox though it may seem, that is one of the causes of the high achievements of maturity in America...
...positivism, the system of philosophy for which Comte is famous, means precisely positive religion, to which positive philosophy, as taught by the "cours de philosophie positive," is only introductory. Thus, positivism is a system which excludes from philosophy all physical relations that are not discovered by observation, experiment, or comparison...
...side of medicine and microscopic work, are very valuable. Courses on the nervous system by Professor Parker, psychology, and climatology offered by the science department are also very helpful to a student desiring to take up the study of nervous and chronic diseases. These last named subjects, however, in comparison with the essential elementaries, may be classed as luxuries for the undergraduate student...
...Harvard Rifle and Pistol Club was defeated by the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday evening by the score of 459 to 432, out of a possible 500. Each team shot at home and sent its targets to its opponent for comparison in scoring. Every man had 50 shots, standing, at a 50-yard target and 50 shots, prone, at 75 yards distance, G. A. Smith of Pennsylvania made the best score, with 97 out of a possible...
Visiting Professor G. W. Prothero drew some interesting comparison between Harvard and Cambridge University. He complained of the fact that English universities are not attended by the mass of the people, that they are hampered by tradition, and have not adapted their courses to the needs of public life. Until the system is reorganized, the English university can hold no such place in the public estimation as does the American university. He hoped for a closer relation between the countries...