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...graduate course in the Medical School. At Yale there are 62 women enrolled as students. Some 40 of them are in the Graduate School and the rest chiefly in the School of Arts and School of Music. These names are taken from the lists, in order to put the comparison on exactly even terms...
...university affords the undergraduate better preparation in regard to the actual learning it gives him.- (a) The range of studies he may pursue is larger: Four American Universities, 26 fg.- (1) As is shown by comparison of the courses offered by Harvard with those offered by Amherst or Williams.- (b) The student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories...
...Copeland expressly disclaimed any attempt to expound either Emerson or Carlyle with authority. He acknowledged a debt to several books and to the illuminating conversation of Professor J. B. Thayer, who, upon Arnold's comparison of Marcus Aurelius and Emerson as moralists, made the important comment that, although Marcus Aurelius gives the world morality, Emerson gives it morality kindled...
...regular departments of the Magazine are as copious as usual. As of especial interest may be mentioned the statistics of the enrolment of the University in this and other years, and in comparison with other institutions this year; the discussion of the examination problem and that of giving greater prominence to scholarly attainment; biographical sketches of the recipients of honorary degrees; the infirmary problem; and a list of some one hundred and fifty former graduate students, with brief notes of their work and occupation since their residence in Cambridge...
...seats in Sever 11 were again taken on the occasion of Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren." The lecture began with a brief comparison of the contemporary Scottish renaissance, with past triumphs,- much greater past triumphs,- of the northern kingdom over the English public...