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There seems to be no end to the muddle at Dartmouth College over President Bartlett: "It is matter of common knowledge," says the Post, "that the feeling over this question has become very deep, and that it has quite destroyed the old kindly, social life at Hanover, though it is not allowed to reach the students, and ostensibly everything is quiet. The only place where the contest can be fought out is in the board of trustees. We infer the majority think President Bartlett will live the opposition down and weary the alumni into indifference and subsequent forgetfulness...
...Miss Helen Magill, Ph. D., who is a student there, declares that a woman can now do almost all that a man can in all departments, classical and scientific. Almost all the university and a number of the college lectures are open to women. Miss Magill thinks that for post-graduate study in this country, Michigan University is to be preferred for historical and political science, Cornell and the Institute of Technology for the natural sciences, and Harvard annex for the classics and mathematics. In England, Oxford is to be recommended for English literature and philology, Cambridge is perhaps...
Entries for the discus-throwing closed at the post. - The event proved to be of considerable interest, but the throwing generally seemed to be marked by lack of skill and practice. It can evidently be made a very graceful and enjoyable sport. Messrs. Denniston, '83, Kip, '83, Page, '83, Paulin, '83, Follansbee, '85, Leavitt, '82, and Cumming, '82, entered. Kip won by a throw of 82 feet, with Denniston second throwing 69 ft., 6 in. The best Greek record is said to be 90 feet...
...engagement of Miss Chandler of Brook-line and Professor Goodwin of Cambridge was announced last week. The marriage will take place immediately, as the bridal party sails the 10th of June for Athens, where Professor Goodwin intends to reside a year. - [Post...
...scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently the case, Columbia means to offer to college-bred men superior facilities in the higher departments of literature and philology, I, for one, hail this step as a decided advance. The intellectual tide is setting ever more strongly toward New York, and here, more...