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...what has been termed the "scientific method" - the method that accepts as of universal applicability the laws of growth. It attempts to trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point out wherein they deemed a book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book...
President White says, as to the coeducation of the sexes at Cornell, that in the classes men outrank women in study, and that a few will be far ahead, but that women have a better general average...
...recent number of the New York Tribune elaborately discusses the question of physical education in colleges in general, and agrees with the views of Dr. Sargent on the subject. It calls Dr. Sargent the foremost authority on the question in this country...
...larger than it is at present, owing to the increasing scope of the society and the wider recognition of its services, together with the decrease in the pressure required to make men join, which will inevitably take place, as the familiarity with the society and its workings becomes more general...
Besides the direct advantages reaped by the members of the society, all the other members of the university, and, indeed, all the inhabitants of Cambridge, enjoy in common with them, the general fall in the prices of small stationery and like articles. For by the extremely low charges made for such goods as examination books and all kinds of paper, the society has forced down the prices in all other stores, so that instead of the exhorbitant prices which prevailed before the foundation of the society, and which in part led to it, there has actually prevailed among the retail...