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...long needed plank walk has been laid from Grays to the entrance of the yard opposite the post office...
...sent after them, who, returning, reported that the examination had entirely slipped the mind of the professor in charge, who had consequently neglected to prepare any paper - a case of absent-mindedness only equalled perhaps by that of the professor who once on inquiring for his mail at the post-office, was unable to give his own name to the clerk, and departed highly indiguant at the obtuseness of the latter in failing to understand his wants...
...rumored, he says, that on the return of Professor Dunbar in September the teaching force in this department will be reduced to one, that one being Professor Dunbar. The corporation offering no inducements to Dr. Laughlin to remain, it is said that he is now negotiating for a post elsewhere. Harvard, he says does not keep up with current thought in political and economic questions. The Toppan prize, the Cobden Club essays, the debates of the Union and "the experiments in practical economy constantly tested at Memorial Hall (very 'economical' if not practical) and the Co-operative Society" illustrate Harvard...
Copies of The Asylum Review, published in the interest of feeble-minded children, and addressed to "Students Harvard College," have been sent to the Cambridge post-office. Unkindest...
...Louis Post-Dispatch says that the State University of Missouri is wretchedly managed and poorly supported. "Its buildings are unfit for their purposes, the class-rooms are insufficient and badly heated, there is no accommodation worth speaking of for students, and the zeal and energy so creditably shown by all connected with the university - curators, faculty and students - are painfully mocked by the contrast with the ancient, rickety and poverty-stricked quarters in which learning is compelled to house itself. The State of Missouri has been badly advertised abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals...