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It is a popular notion that the great majority of honor men and of "first scholars" seldom achieve in after-life a success at all proportionate to their academical standing. But of course this is strictly a popular notion, conceived in accordance with popular ideals. It can be answered that...
Aside from the medicines, which, when taken habitually are no more medicines (since those are understood to be only remedial measures for disease), the growing use of tobacco is a serious evil. If used at all freely, it most certainly shortens life; and when taken by the young (and boys...
Of all professional studies, medical courses are the most popular in Paris. It is said that medical students pay for tuition 1260 francs in their course of four years, and law students about 740 francs in a course of three years.
The New York Sunday Times has an interesting letter from its Paris correspondent, on the manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his...
The value of a college education, and particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will...