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...Museum, Boucicault will present for the first time in America his new play, "Suil-a-Mor." This play is the one that created such a sensation in London, when produced there, on account of its political allusions. It is called Boucicault's best...
...more importance now in their own eyes than they will ever be hereafter - of many of the strong effects which they expected it to have." "The conceited bumptiousness of a number of young cubs" is good for the editor of the Post, and in our opinion the freshmen should present him with a chromo. The Globe speaks of the freshmen's performance as "one of the most remarkable scenes that ever passed in Music Hall." It gives the following account of their proceedings...
...funeral of Rev. Dr. Bellows took place yesterday at New York. A high tribute to the deceased was paid by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. A number of clergymen and prominent citizens were present. The interment is at Walpole...
...present examination system in American colleges is, we believe, daily proving itself more unsatisfactory alike to instructors and students. Educators generally are beginning to see that it is totally inadequate for its purposes, and almost as readily defeats as subserves its own ends. For the higher university education it is especially ill-adapted. This fact indeed has been long recognized, but the innate conservatism of college authorities, as well as a natural tendency to extend the methods of primary teaching even to collegiate instruction, has sufficed to insure it a lamentable prevalence in every stage of the college curriculum...
...York stock market yesterday the general list was strong and firm throughout, and there is no disposition to sell stocks at present prices. The news from abroad represents the situation there as greatly improved, and the foreign houses state that the Paris bourse has undoubtedly seen the worst of its troubles for the present...