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...cover of the first number of the Shaksperiana, a monthly devoted to the interest of students of Shakspere, illustrates the window placed by the class of '54 in Memorial Hall...
...current Nation contains a letter from an indignant Yale undergraduate on the "senior society evil" at that college. We await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins...
...both these passages, as thus (probably not quite correctly) reported convey decidedly erroneous ideas, of which the interest of your readers require the correction. It is quite true that both several of the more celebrated "public schools" of England, e. g., Winchesher, Eton, Winchester, Merchant Taylors' (London), Westminster, and also a very large number of "public" or "grammar" schools (founded three hundred years ago for teaching Latin grammar as the necessary key to all higher education in the revival period) were, by their founders' wills connected with, or placed under the supervision of certain colleges at Oxford and Cambridge...
...announcement, just out, of the second part of the "Philosophical Series" by Pres. McCosh will interest students of Philosophy. The notice reads as follows:-No. V.-"Locke, with a notice of Berkeley." It is shown that Locke held by a body of truth, and that he has often been misunderstood; but that he has not by his experience theory iaid a sure foundation of knowledge. No. VI.-"David Hume as expounded by Huxley." It is unnecessary to examine Hume's skepticism, but it is best to do so in the defense of it by Huxley. No. VII.-"A Criticism...
...following extracts from a letter on education in Egypt, reprinted in the Hillsdale Herald, may be of interest. The present khedive, who is a strong supporter of the education of women as well as men, has been doing much good to the cause since his accession to the throne...