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...award of the Bowdoin prizes for 1887.8 has been posted as follows: Group I. To Edison Leone Whitney, A. B., 1885, a prize of $100 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire;" Group II. No a ward has yet been made in this group. Group III, A. To Francis Demetrius Kalopothakes, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire." B. To John Henry William Walden, senior, a prize of $50 for a translation into Latin prose. Group IV. To Maxime Bocher, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation...
...call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...women are also given, so we have before us the typical college senior of both sexes. "Composite photographs of college classes should furnish more important evidence as to the value of this method of typical representation than any which could be derived from composites of less closely related groups. Will all the senior classes of the same college yield the same composite face? By comparing the photograps any one can see at a glance that this is not the case. There is a difference as distinct as the impression which different classes make on the minds of their instructors...
...HOLDEN, Captain.Math. D.-The two sections in this course will recite in Harvard 5, Monday, Wednesday and Friday; one section at 11, the other at 3. The course, will, however, remain in group VIII, and will be examined on the same day as the other courses in that group...