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Vincennes "University" (Ind.,) is running a lottery, from which it expects to realize $20,000. It is allowed to do so under State charter. We congratulate our sister university upon this strikingly original plan of hers for advancing the cause of the "higher education" and good morals in the West...
...often complained that the subjects assigned in themes are too general in character and require too much outside reading by men. Although this, of itself, may be really a benefit, the plan of one American university is worth considering. Every student must present "for examination and criticism, during the period of his study, papers suggested by the work he has been engaged in" to give evidence that he can write good English...
...plan of reappointment proposed by Representative Burrows finds the most favor...
...average weight is one hundred and twenty-two and one-half pounds, and a pretty fair one it is. Average age, seventeen and one-half, and average gain in three months, whether owing to hard study, or to the much-despised but wise plan of "early to bed and early to rise," seven and one-half pounds. For the benefit of future husbands, who, like good old Dr. Primrose in the "Vicar of Wakefield," choose their wives not for their shining surface, but for good wearing qualities, we will add that seventeen are taking practice lessons in cookery, nine...
...Knox Student proposes a plan for an inter-collegiate bulletin. We quote: "The plan we propose is an exceedingly simple one. Each college sends us items of the inter-collegiate interest. We collect these items, and each week send a printed bulletin to all colleges which furnish items. We propose this plan because we believe it practicable. Several Eastern college journals have tried to organize such an association and have failed. To avoid failure we offer to do all the work. We would also suggest the advisability of holding a convention of college editors at Indianapolis next May, during...