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...literature, that the study of Greek, becoming more rational in its methods, will go on in a constantly increasing degree. "Women will again study Greek as Lady Jane Grey did. I believe that in that chain of fords with which the fair host of the amazons is engirding the English universities, I find that in the happy families of your mixed American universities out West, they are studying it already." This is certainly a sanguine view. Hitherto Greek has seemed to be the bane of the female race, and it is certainly new to believe that out of all this...
...James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree...
...account of sickness Prof. Hill's recitations in English 5 and 8 have been omitted this week...
...work of instruction and the work of examination should be separated by a line distinctly drawn; in themselves they have no connection. This matter indeed is directly connected with the establishment of a permanent body of resident graduates at the college similar to the masters and fellows of the English universities. From such a body the class of examiners could be selected. Already every year the number of bachelors of arts remaining to pursue higher studies, not professional, after graduation is largely increasing. In many ways we can even now see the good effects of this in raising the standard...
...running through the statement, is an analysis of his nature, etc,. The paper was prepared, not for reading at the society's rooms, but for publication in a small volume, to which would be added a like biography of his distinguished grandfather, Robert Parker, the father, almost of the English nonconformists. Notes, also, have been prepared to each department, giving a condensed synopsis of the lives of all the principal bishops, etc., with whom these men came in contact, and so were influencing to them, one way or another, in the extreme...