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...present seize! the coming...
...There will be in residence at Cambridge, during the present Lent term, more than fifty students, who have come from a distance to attend the lectures on the higher Education of Women...
...Captain's communication to your journal, an appeal is made to graduates for pecuniary aid. These contributions were elicited by the letters written respectively by '52 and myself. To ask for alms is an extraordinary way to answer a criticism. I write that I disapprove the present system, and you reply by asking me for money to perpetuate that system. Though I will not accept the principle that advice must be backed up by dollars and cents, and though I am not now in a position to subscribe to any cause, should the boating men decide either to send...
...Rifle Corps, and there seems to be little advantage in attempting to revive it. It would be much better if those who are interested in the Corps would turn to other forms of exercise which are of much more importance to the College, and which are at present in a languishing condition. We recommend that the ghost of the Rifle Corps be allowed to join the spirits of the French, German, Chess, and other clubs which have recently expired for want of nourishment...
...have received the official circular for February of Johns Hopkins University. As yet no settled plan for conducting the University has been decided upon, so that the present scheme may be materially modified in the announcement for next year, which is to be published hereafter. At present, students of three sorts are in attendance. On entering the University, if the student meets the requirements, he is at once admitted to full membership; but if he is not prepared in certain branches, his matriculation may, with the consent of the Faculty, be deferred for a reasonable time. Special students are admitted...