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...them, and we understand that a movement is on foot among some of the men to petition the faculty for the addition of a course in Anthropology to the curriculum for next year. Whether we have been rightly informed or not in regard to the movement, we wish to express hearty sympathy with such a sentiment, and would encourage those interested to place a petition before the faculty, for in the present list of electives very little knowledge of the socalled New Science can be acquired-a fact greatly to be deplored in a university of Harvard's aspirations...
...have heard a great number of students express regret that no such (?) as open to them and recently some of our most prominent professors have stated that such a course was needed and its absence from the list regular course inexplicable...
...Wednesday Mail and Express publishes about one half of a list of the 250 colleges in this country. It commences with Harvard, 1650, and gives the name of each president, his class and college society...
...very sorry to hear of the lack of willingness on the part of a good many men to support the University crew. Many who can afford to give to the crew, not only refuse to do so, but take occasion to express dissatisfaction that after the defeats in the past few years, they should be expected to take any interest in the crew...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...