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...fact that with this plan of separate cells no favoritism is possible. The poorest may win, and I knew of a case in which the son of a Chinese clerk in a European's office at Canton came out second in the trial and was at once forwarded to the capital, there to become a mandarin of distinction. It should be fair; for the candidates enter at "The Gate of Perfect Equity," hand in their essays at "The Hall of Perfect Rectitude," see them sealed up in "The Hall of Restraint," and know that they are examined in "The Hall...
...beauties of nature in waterfalls, grottoes, etc, for such efforts are held to meet with little appreciation in this country. The new topography will be constructed simply in order to secure the varied conditions of shade, moisture and temperature, so far as possible, demanded by the plants. The plan is fully to illustrate Dr. Gray's "Manual" which comprises the plants east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina. Efforts towards a completion of the collection were made last summer, and, with the stock already in the greenhouse, a pretty full representation will be made at the start...
...Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan which has been adopted is the same as the London plan of "subscriptions," by which...
...that the school may be unjustly interfering with the veterinary profession, if it takes away their cases by charging fifty per cent. less for its services than members of the profession must do to support themselves. there ought to be room for both. It would seem as if some plan ought to be devised, if the school is to be run as a school, by which competition with outsiders could be avoided. It is certainly no part of a school's duties to enter into a sharp competition with a profession whose interests it proposes to advance...
Professor Sumner of Yale will institute the plan of having a "loan library for political economy" this year for his optional class. A book containing 350 questions relative to political economic subjects will be the textbook used, and the optional study will consist of looking up the references bearing upon those questions...