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American colleges, it is claimed, derive two-fifths of their income from their students, while English colleges only derive one-tenth from that source...
...Lyman Abbott in a recent article on Rugby, gives a description of life at this popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees...
...four-handed racket match for the championship of the English universities was played recently at Belgravia near London, between Oxford and Cambridge men, and Cambridge won the match by four games to one, making a total of 60 aces against 22. The score in 27 matches now stands 14 for Cambridge and 13 for Oxford. From 1869 to 1875 Oxford won seven times in succession, and from 1876 to 1883 Cambridge has had a series of uninterrupted victories. The single-handed game was also won by Cambridge by a score of three games to one. Twenty-six single handed matches...
Prof. J. P. Cooke will deliver his course of lectures illustrating English history, beginning next Tuesday and continuing on the successive Tuesdays of May. The lectures are delivered primarily for the freshmen and their friends...
...English Readings. Debate of the Body and the Soul. Prof. Child. Sever...