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...next theme in English 5 is due next Friday. Subject like that of the last one on any current topic. Another theme due a week from next Friday will have as its subject any suggestion in regard to the improvement of the university, either in its government or in the conduct of its students...
...Everett Athenaeum had a debate last evening on "Resolved, That the American system of government is better than the English...
...English Readings. Chaucer's Clerk's Tale (concluded). The Franklin's Tale. Prof. Child. Sever...
...students attracted to Harvard by the fame of particular instructors? In our opinion, a negative answer can be safely given to this query which brings up a distinctive feature of American and English universities as compared with German institutions. In Germany students are attracted by the peculiar brilliancy of some one instructor or department; men go to hear Helmholtz, or Virchow or some equally celebrated professor - not to attend the particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship...
Professor Henry J. S. Smith of Oxford, whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank...