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...full college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...other colleges, except Princeton, seem to have adopted a waiting policy in regard to the confirmation or rejection of the athletic resolutions...
...trustees, faculty and students, put into practice Dr. Hamlin's theories. Hitherto, when an American college needed money-and as a rule it always needed it-appeals were made to charity. The alumni of Middlebury College may, however, feel sure that their Alma Mater will never need assistance, except, perhaps, in spending the enormous wealth which it is destined to acquire...
...McCosh, Progressing favorably. The number of advanced students in that department this year has been large, and it is expected to increase with the opening of the next season. Dr. McCosh says the department will be the most complete of any college in America or any other country, except Germany. The faculty is making a new distribution of studies, required by the addition of new branches. An effort is being made to erect a building for the accommodation of the Art School, at an expense of $40,000, to enable work in that department to begin in September. The plan...
...well played. Something appeared to be the trouble diring the first movement which was dreadfully ragged, each man playing independently, so that it was hard to catch the conductor's interpretation. The remaining three numbers were, however, as well played as we have ever heard the orchestra play Beethoven, except that in the third movement the sudden change to the "tempo primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit...