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Col. Walker's lecture this evening upon "American Manufactures and Agriculture" is upon a subject important to every one. Col. Walker has had the control of the census of 1880, which has been the most complete and comprehensive census ever taken of this country, and perhaps of any country in...
Mrs. De Sorosis was omitted when Anacreon's "Phusis" gave beauty to women, and with truly feminine ingenuity she had adopted another method outside the sphere of Nature to attract the masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects...
From this small beginning her fame grew and grew, and she shortly became a celebrity in intellectual circles. She gave recitations more and more frequently, and at last had them every week. At these appeared as many of the lions as could be induced to be present. The rising young...
Mr. W. G. Hale, formerly instructor at Harvard and now at Cornell, writes a long and very interesting letter to the current Nation on "The Working of the Elective System at Harvard." Speaking from the standpoint of a former instructor in the college, Mr. Hale states and describes the theory...
"Of the young men selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary...