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...Newnham College at Cambridge, England, an instistution for the higher education of women, opened in 1871 with five students, and its numbers have increased, during a period of fourteen years, to about one hundred. The "Annex" opened in 1879 with more than twenty students, and now, at the end of six years, it has more than fifty...
This recommendation of the overseers should be adopted by all the leading colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...
...Lampoon may be expected before the end of this week...
...extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge is valuable only so far as it can be made to pay in an examination, it is hard to see how he can unlearn the teaching he has received, and alter the character that has been formed in him. The grown man is what he has been taught...
Photo. groups this week: Monday, 1.15, Art Club, north end of Library; 1.45, Phi Beta Kappa, Studio; Tuesday, Class picture, back of Memorial; Wednesday 1.15, Shooting Club...