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...Princeton and at Williams, we are reliably informed, the proposal to restrict the present base-ball league to Yale, Princeton, Brown and Harvard, and for Amherst, Dartmouth and Williams to unite in forming a second league, is received with much faver. The suggestion, we believe, will meet with no opposition unless from Amherst and Dartmouth...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...Harvard Annex having been formally incorporated, is now in a position to receive endowments and bequests. It is not likely that many of these will be bestowed upon it while it remains the hybrid thing it is at present. It is not easy for people of practical sense to regard with patience the preposterous attitude of Harvard in relation to the annex. If it is willing to have any pedagogical relations whatever with women students, it ought to be willing to conduct them on the same terms that are granted by Oxford and Cambridge - universities that were venerable with years...
...professor's method was as follows: He called one of the students by name and asked him what had been done at the recitation on the previous day. The student immediately rose and gave an interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed if he were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task...
...history of the observatory. The accumulation of unreduced observations has been greatly diminished, and the eight quarto volumes required for the work still unpublished will be mainly occupied with material now almost ready for printing, except that part which relates to recent observations. On the cessation of the present subscription, the observatory must revert to its former restricted condition, unless relieved by fresh assistance. A new subscription toward a permanent fund of $100,000 has recently been set on foot, with good prospects of success. About $20,000 have already been promised in case similar promises can be obtained...