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...several other tendencies of modern university life and methods, forming, as a Boston paper puts it, altogether a "strange mixture of sense and dogmatism." Among other things cried out against was the elective system, the stale stock arguments being brought up against it, and aimed very plainly against the particular case of Harvard. "He declares," says this Boston paper, "that an American boy of eighteen is not competent to select the studies which will give him the most valuable training or best fit him for active life. Any one," it continues, "who has watched the tendency and effect...
...York, Manhattan, Staten Island, Williamsburg, American, Scottish-American, Adelphi, and Elizabeth Athletic clubs were represented. A motion was made that the rules be amended so that members of the association be permitted to enter contests in which professional events are included, provided that no professionals be entered in the particular contests in which the members of the association compete. The motion was discussed very spiritedly, and when put to vote was carried, representatives of all but the American Athletic Club voting in favor of the amendment...
Careful observations of sun-spots are being made at the Harvard Observatory. No particular preparations are being made for the observation of the coming transit of Venus, as the observatory has plenty of other work on hand of the first importance, and Cambridge is not considered as climatically well located for such observations at this season...
...commenting on the recent annual report of President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, the Advertiser says: "The fact that the Baltimore experiment has had highly interesting and gratifying success, proves nothing against Cornell, Ann Arbor, Yale or Harvard, and the friends of Harvard in particular have good ground for maintaining that beside much else, there is attempted in Cambridge that very work which gives Johns Hopkins its distinctive character...
...International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present Emperor of Germany, and Jerome Bonaparte; with Story, Webster, Clay, Sumner, Agassiz and Longfellow. Among the many valuable letters chosen by Mr. Perry, one in particular gives Lieber's personal recollections of the battle of Waterloo, and others present a striking picture of the state of feelings in the slave States just before...