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...commencement exercises take place at Lasell today. Those of Wellesley will be held the 28th...
...University of Berlin is going a-begging for a professor of philosophy. A few years ago Professor Harms died, and after considerable negotiating Professor Lotze accepted the place. He, too, died before he had occupied his chair more than a year, and all the efforts made since to obtain Professor Kuno Fischer, of Heidelberg, Professor von Goltz, Professor Sigwart, and others have failed. The position is one of the most honorable and remunerative in the country, and the phenomenon is therefore some what peculiar. There are plenty of younger psychologists in Germany, but they are all modern in spirit...
...severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other respect, he knew his own language as well as ever, and recalled perfectly all the incidents...
Josiah Royce, the newly appointed instructor in philosophy, who will take Dr. James' place next year, while the latter is in Europe, is a Californian by birth, being thirty years of age. He is a graduate of the University of California, and has held a travelling fellowship from that institution. After graduation he spent one year in Germany in the study of philosophy. Subsequently he spent three years at Johns Hopkins University, where he took the degree of doctor of philosophy with high honors. He has recently been assistant professor of English Literature at the University of California. Dr. Royce...
...member of '84 at Yale is said to possess a terrier famous for rat-hunting, as well as a pet badger. The following highly dramatic account of their actions appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance...