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Deterioration of eyesight, especially among students, has been an increasing topic of complaint not only in the United States, but in Europe. Mr. Samuel Yorke has an interesting article on the subject in a recent monthly. He says that in Germany, while the number of short-sighted children in the...
There is an article in the Nineteenth Century on "Recreation," by Sir James Paget, an eminent London physician.
Recently our attention was called by a communication in these columns to the fact that the meetings of the St. Paul's Society are by no means so well attended as they should be. The society has nominally a very large membership, and it is yet a well known fact...
Prof. Youmans declares that the study of dead languages has been the one pre-eminent and historic failure of so-called liberal education.
At a symposium of Princeton professors, almost unanimous support of Latin and Greek courses in the college was manifested. Dr. McCosh stated that while in London he was present at a discussion of the most eminent scholars in science and literature, the most brilliant literary company with which he ever...