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...Franklin Johnson, on "True Womanhood," in excellent style. Mr. King's new and enlarged edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" cannot be issued for two months yet, owing to the delay in securing new views of the college buildings. Mr. King intends soon to compete with the present Cambridge dealers by opening a stock of books and stationery at his present quarters...
...Persae" of AEschylus will be produced at Weimer during the present month...
...Bowdoin Orient has some opinions on the present regime at Yale and its methods of instruction, and thinks that in this matter that "a radical change, both in principle and practice, must be made if Yale is to hold in the future the high position she has enjoyed in the past...
...best articles, both in prose and verse, is the editor, Winthrop Mackworth Praed ; a name which will hereafter be distinguished in English literature, if the productions of his maturity correspond with the promise of his youth." That exchange editor and successful prophet was J. O. Sargent, at present an overseer of the university. An appeal for the reading-room on page 64 we are tempted to transfer bodily and apply to the present day ; it would fit very well...
...theirs of late years towards securing cheaper living, and especially recently by their movement for cooperation. (2) The efforts made of late years by the university to secure support and endowment for professorships in the higher and more recondite branches of learning, are sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard...