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...Gray, in company with Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, reviews, in the April number of the American Journal of Science, Dr. Candolle's "Origin of Cultivated Plants," with the result of claiming more indigenous plants for America than the Swiss botanist allows. A second article is promised in the next number...
...what is called co-education, or education of both sexes in the same rooms, as exists here, perhaps even as strong as that which burns so fiercely in the breast of Dr. Dix. We should not be surprised even to learn that this dislike had as high an origin. We believe there are among the Boston friends of the movement many who enjoy that greatest of earthly luxuries, the luxury of knowing that one's own views on any subject are simply an embodiment of the Divine will. - [N. Y. Post...
...book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value to the reflective student, will be found - especially in its examination into the origin of the English novel, and into the growth of realism, - of fresh interest to the general reader. The work is a credit to Harvard scholarship...
...rumor about a new dormitory for Harvard, which has been published in many papers, is entirely without foundation. It owes its origin to the Hastings bequest, which was made several years ago, with the stipulation that not more than $250,000 of that bequest should be expended on some new building. That building is not necessarily to be a dormitory, and morever the funds from the bequest will not be available for some time to come...
...which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated the expression 'All England for a Horse'?" Someone of a kindly spirit and better knowledge of Shakespeare, has appended to the card the correct quotation and its source. One may usually be expected to judge that the questioner is especially interested in the subject on which his query is made...