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...Seymour Haden, the eminent English artist, has during the past week been the guest of Prof. Wolcott Gibbs...
That highly aristocratic journal, the St. James Gazette, contained in a late number a detailed account of an exceedingly interesting performance on the part of the students of the University of Edinburgh, an account which we reproduce in another column. What morals the English papers have been drawing from these proceedings, which, we believe, have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance...
...English system involves no social meeting whatever with the male students, and the admirable results in the intellectual training of women, and the consequent improvement of the schools wherein many become teachers, have already been incalculable. In the face of the good so easily and smoothly accomplished, there is no whisper of disapproval or even satire in England. Harvard is wealthy, and could have well afforded to follow the dignified and liberal example of the English universities. Instead of that she has only permitted women students to halt at her back door, allowing her professors to assume burdens which...
...English co-education which provides for the mental training in company of young men and women, and which excludes other personal association, is the system which for years the Tribune has heartily advocated. There may be a better co-educational system; but of this at least it is known that its advantages have been thoroughly proved. That it has no drawback whatever has also been proved - and proved, too, by authorities which no American college of high or low degree has a right to disregard. The sooner Harvard University admits women upon exactly the same terms with Oxford the better...
...University took place at the Baptist Church in Waterville last evening. Eight members of the class gave original pieces, in which much study and research were displayed. The junior parts assigned for scholarship were rendered with credit as follows : Latin oration, Henry Kingman, Boston, Mass.; French, Schailer Mathews, Portland; English, Willard C. Clement, Brandon, Vt.; Greek, Edwin P. Burt, Chelmsford, Mass...