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...called progressive country like ours, where invention after invention is developed from the ingenious Yankee mind with startling rapidity, and where institutions of learning are scattered as rapidly as the products of the Patent Office, it is no easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea...
...President White at the latest reports was on his way to Naples. His health was very much improved, and he hoped to reassume soon his duties at Cornell...
...keep posted on the philosophical speculations of the day knows how important it is to have a knowledge as complete as possible of the relations existing between mind and body. Dr. James's course, dealing as it does with Herbert Spencer's principles of psychology and with the latest investigations on the functions of the brain, supplies a want that is felt by every student of philosophy; and now that it has been rightly classified, we may confidently expect that this course will occupy a place equal in favor with that of any philosophical elective...
...from a scientific point of view, let the men of the present time not only investigate the question of form, but let them go a step farther and solve a more subtle problem, the mutual effects of mind and muscle. Let them study hygiene, and be conversant with the latest hygienic discoveries. By following these suggestions, Harvard would soon become the cynosure of all rowing-men on your side of the Atlantic, and, what is of infinitely more importance, would regain and maintain her supremacy with the least possible expenditure of time and strength...
...another column Gabriel Conroy, the latest work of Mr. Bret Harte, is spoken of as the new story by Rev. E. E. Hale, - a statement which, if true, will probably involve lawsuits and a literary scandal of the first magnitude...