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...instruction given to graduates, of whom there are over thirty, gathered from many colleges, and including Harvard A. B's. The corps of professors, instructors, assistants and lecturers, who are charged with the duty of teaching these men, numbers 63, of whom 28 comprise the faculty. At their head is president Francis W. Walker, one of the leading economists of the country, formerly in charge of the U. S. census of 1880; and among the professors are such men as John D. Runkle, Wm. P. Atkinson and Alpheus Hyatt...
...behalf when allowed to the lowest class in college, as the higher classes. The system is a preventive of, and a cure for, poor scholarship. It introduces the student to those studies in which he may attain excellence. It abolishes the ne cessity of his knocking his head against departments of knowledge in the attaining of which his ability is slight. It tends to establish the habit of intellectual thoroughness; it advances scholarship in every realm of study, in the case of the professor as well as of the student...
...something lacking, and that, too, in what we consider one of our strongest departments, that of Natural Science. In the elective pamphlet there is not to be found mention of a single course in one of the grandest of our sciences, Astronomy. Turning to the catalogue under the head of "The Astronomical Observatory," we find this statement: "Any one properly qualified to pursue the study of practical astronomy may be admitted to the Observatory as a student." But what is meant by "properly qualified?" It goes on to say, "a degree of astronomical knowledge as is implied in a thoro...
...Robinson, '87, while attempting a somersault from a spring-board at the gymnasium yesterday afternoon, fell on his head and arms and dislocated both elbows. In the absence of Dr. Sargent, a physician from the neighborhood, Dr. Ela, was called...
...Yale, Princeton, and many other colleges which I could name, no organization is too insignificant to have an illustration at the head of its page, no society too prosaic in character to have an engraving to illustrate the work it does. There is one of the largest colleges of this country where it is the business of each sophomore class to choose a board of eight or ten editors to bring out their publication, and the result is that the work appears in a month or two at latest after the opening of their Junior year; and not only this...