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Salvini is going to play in English at the Covent Garden Theatre in London next spring...
...Social Science Congress, says a writer in a recent English periodical, the other day, a learned man speaking of education versus health, described in the most earnest language the sorrow and dismay he experienced after visiting the colleges of Newnham and Girton...
...certain phase of the question of women's education, as viewed from a certain standpoint, is exemplified in the quotation in another column from an English article on the subject of the "Girl Graduate." We cannot but think the point of view there taken, and the conclusions implied however, exceedingly narrow. It is true that the present system of higher education for women results in the production of many uninteresting types. Yet it must be remembered that that system is yet in its infancy, and that furthermore the type portrayed in our quotation cannot fairly be said to be representative...
...academies and was everywhere of the same type. The college curriculum centered on the classics and the mathematics, with marked attention to that type of mental and moral philosophy most in favor with the clerical class. Science was taught chiefly from text-books, with history, modern languages, and English literian in a rapidly diminishing scale. These institutions were all under the influence of the different religious denominations, and their presidents adn professors were largely drawn from the clergy. The higher education was only for men, there being no schools for girls in the country where a thorough college course could...
...annual boat race of the English universities will take place about the middle of March...