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...that he would pursue, and the order in which he would pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine theological students to be capable of a perfunctory performance at prayers, as is the case with ninety-nine hundredths of the undergraduates to whom the liberty of non attendance is denied. There is, therefore, nothing shocking in the idea of compulsion as applied to the former. We observe that among the lectures at the Divinity School last year was one on Vivisection, by the Dean of the Medical Faculty. This suggests the utility of a lecture...
...above other public schools; but instead of taking the load with its large endowments and prestige, naturally enough it has followed in the wake of Rugby, and other foundations, and in the matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition of verse-making, except as an extra in the higher forms. Greek, too, as a compulsory subject is doomed, and all the head masters in England cannot...
...Overseers are making a series of visits to Appleton Chapel during morning prayers. What their purpose is, we do not know, except that it has some connection with the recent prayer petition. Perhaps they are criticising the service, with a view to making it more palatable to the non-conformists,-if the petitioners may be called so; or, perhaps they are taking evidence from the faces of the congregation as to whether there is much good derived from compulsory chapel-going. We sincerely hope the former contingency is not the actual case. Improvements in the service, if they are possible...
...meeting in New York, on Saturday, it was decided to change the constitution, so that in future, a club forfeiting a single game shall be expelled from the association. This was done at the request of Harvard, because our club was much inconvenienced last year by the non-appearance in Cambridge of the N, Y. University twelve. It was also voted that the officers of the inter-collegiate association be taken each year from men who will still be under-graduates the succeeding year. The Yale delegate asked permission to withdraw his club from the association. This was granted...
...advanced scholarship and to science. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and the Johns Hopkins University, are the principal literary institutions of this country which offer fellowships. Yale has seven fellowships, varying in value from forty-six dollars to six hundred; two are of the larger amount. The prosecution of a non-professional course of study in New Haven, under the direction of the faculty, is the general condition of holding them. By a "non-professional course," law, medicine and theology are debarred. Princeton, about five years ago, had six fellowships, and was expecting to add more. This has been done...