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...June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An interesting article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals...
...Manchester, England, Recently, a tennis match was played between Heathcote, the English amateur champion and Thomas Pettitt, the American champion, with the following result: First set, Heathcote, six games to four. Second set. Pettitt six games to three. Third set, Pettitt six games to none. Fourth set, Pettitt, six games to two; thus the American champion was the victor by three sets...
...intimately associated,-as a student at Bowdoin, and a professor at Harvard. Further, it is pleasing to be recipients of a copy of the bust of him who is the first of Americans to be honored by a niche in the "poet's corner" of the famous English abbey. Harvard, for her part, will receive gratefully this tribute to the memory of him who was so long connected with it and who remained till the end a resident near her classic shades...
...Hodge of the American lacrosse team, is sick in Liverpool, and will not probably be able to play in the English matches...
...women ought not to get a degree, simply because she is a woman, even when she passes the same examinations and does the same amount of work as a man, is unreasoning obstinacy. Let us hope this simple question will be settled without more ado, and let the English faculties grant for a certain amount of work a proportionate reward to women, just as they now grant them a certificate. If the question must still be quibbled over and discussed, the men who are now blindly opposing a liberal idea, will some day awake and see to their surprise, like...