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...board of trustees. "President Gilman's plans," this gentleman claims, "have so far resulted in one or two discoveries by one or two of his professors which were, doubtless, appreciated by the most learned people here and abroad, and his plans have served to further educate already well educated post-graduates of Northern colleges who come here, secure paying fellowships, avail themselves of all the advantages extended for our near neighbors and then, securing positions elsewhere, leave us. With forty-one professors and an income of $225,000, we should be educating a thousand instead of two hundred...
...York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality...
...Boston Post is authority for the statement that Governor Butler will not attend the commencement exercises this year...
...thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once more. The time for every man or society to stop doing wrong is now. - [New York Evening Post...
...Post remarks with considerable heat: A majority of the overseers of Harvard University, having done just what they should not have done with respect to the question of conferring a degree upon the governor, and having thus committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made...