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...general question of the study of English in colleges, and just what place it should take in any scheme of liberal education, is an important one, which the course now entered upon by Harvard will help greatly to solve. For our own part, we would not for a moment underestimate the claims of a so-called classical training; but we can not help thinking that if anything is to be sacrificed it should not be English. - Boston Post...
...project of the college officials is certainly one to be commended and aided by an intelligent community. If it is wise to aid the poor student by scholarships and loans of money it is even wiser to help him to use his vacation in such a way as to enable him to add to his income and at the same time to gain rest by a change of scene and occupation...
...substituted therefor that of Secretary of the University. The increased powers connected with the new office and the wisdom of the change have been made apparent in the management of petitions for absence and in other ways, but what we particularly wish to notice, is the prospect for helping students in their efforts to obtain a livelihood during the summer months, and further in finding permanent situations for men who are about to leave the University. The college authorities have always done what they could in aiding graduates to get positions as teachers, but now the system has been extended...
...second article written by Mr. A. McF. Davis. It consists of an exhaustive discussion of the facts concerning the famous Banque Generale. It seems a singular freak of Providence that Sieur Law, the son of a Scotch goldsmith, should have been the man to suggest a way to help the French government out of financial shipwreck, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Law spent the early part of his life in roaming about Europe gambling and duelling and all the time turning over in his brain scheme after scheme for revolutionizing the financial world by introducing a credit...
...ostrich which was lately presented to the Biological Department was found to contain two cents, a brass button and a hair brush. The seniors wish to help in its dissection, in the hope of finding a stray watch or so. - Pennsylvanian...