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...EDUCATION does not seem to be a success at Cornell. At the present time there are but 403 students of both sexes in attendance, and of these 350 are young men, against about 700 when the experiment began...
...will be admitted to the instruction for women who presents herself at the Harvard University Preliminary Examination for Women, and passes satisfactorily in any eight of the following subjects: 1. English; 2. Physical Geography; 3. Botany or Physics; 4. Mathematics 1 (Arithmetic; Algebra, through equations of the first degree, including Proportions, Fractions, and Common Divisor); 5. Mathematics 2 (Algebra, through Quadratics; Plane Geometry); 6. History; 7. French; 8. German; 9. Latin; 10. Greek. This examination will be held in Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, beginning Wednesday, May 28, 1879. The regular fee for the examination is $15. For this...
...kindness of the architects we are enabled to present to our readers, with this issue, a plan of the first floor of Sever Hall, and a view of the exterior. The building will be far more handsome on the outside than any of the present College buildings, so that beauty has not by any means been sacrificed to convenience. The convenience, we had almost said the luxury, of the interior arrangements seems to be all that could be desired. We are especially glad to see that a rational system of ventilation has not been considered unnecessary, as it was when...
...exclude from its membership all graduates who reside outside of Massachusetts, is a conclusion which the Harvard Club does not accept, and whether it ought to have such a right is the point proposed to be decided. No one, of course, questions the diligence and fidelity of the present board, and it is only to promote the true interests of the University, and to provide against the evils which have arisen from close corporations, that the present step has been taken. Until both sides, however, have been fully heard, it would be hardly fair to pass a judgment...
...boating annals. The interest which it will afford will well repay the trouble of making the short trip to Lake Quinsigamond, and the presence of a large number of Harvard men will lend no slight encouragement to Mr. Goddard. We hope that all who are able will be present at the race, and we can assure Mr. Goddard that he leaves Cambridge with Harvard's best wishes for his success...